Every single large server in this federation has at least one Star Trek community. There is even an entire server dedicated to Star Trek.
Not only that, these communities are some of the most active I’ve ever seen. There is no other franchise I know of that dominates the federation as much as Star Trek does.
So, what’s the correlation with Lemmy and Star Trek? Why not other sci-fi series? Please, are there any connections?? Is this all coincidental?
Read an article in the economist ten years ago or so that said that with the automation potential back then, we could have 70% unemployment and still produce western middle-class living standards for absolutely everyone. Probably not cars (go public transport, instead) but definitely roof and four walls, healthy food, education and entertainment, healthcare, and a washing machine. Reason it’s not happening is that while investing in that kind of thing has a giant ROI, it’s also long-term, for quarterly or even ten-year profits it’s more advantageous to hire humans.
Honestly, actually that’s good news: It’s going to happen one way or the other anyway, and we don’t want that kind of control over automated means of productions in the hands of people too greedy to invest in it.