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ValueSubtracted@startrek.website Joined: 2023-06-11

Link: https://theconversation.com/can-you-live-long-and-prosper-by-learning-economics-from-star-trek-or-is-that-highly-illogical-246988

hopesdead@startrek.website Joined: 2024-05-27

Go ask a Ferengi.

otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com Joined: 2023-11-18

Fr. If you're looking to apply economics from a scifi post-wealth austerity setting into this (sweeps arm at horizon)... You're gonna have a bad time.

haverholm@kbin.earth Joined: 2024-11-23

It's a fairly light and noncommittal piece, but yes. They do get into Ferengi at some length.

f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz Joined: 2024-03-25

Billionaires hoarding computer components: "It would violate the Prime Directive of Fascism to share our technology with this developing civilization."

mactan@lemmy.ml Joined: 2023-06-04

the cynical Swerve effect. at the ends of all stories we MUST shrug our shoulders and say "better things aren't possible"

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