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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Sort of a pivot, but The Orville did a great bit about replicators and how if you dropped them into a society like 21st century Earth, they'd just end up coopted by the rich and further strain society.

We can't even have future nice things thanks to capitalism.