Yet there are millions who don’t need to make money to survive but continue to work
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Yet there are millions who don’t need to make money to survive but continue to work
Debatable. Those people clearly have jobs they enjoy, and as the old saying goes get a job you like and you'll never work a day of your life.
Thats cute. Got any other fairytales to recommend?
It's pretty much a question of the appropriate dependency ratio. For all we know, the 24th century has a dire surplus of workers and could do with a few more freeloaders, considering the extreme productivity of the few who work.
And the menial jobs are the easiest: you only need to hire somebody for half a day, there being a trillion others within easy reach to continue from where he or she left off. If it instead takes training, then obviously there's some sort of enthusiasm included, and so there you have it.
Timo Saloniemi
And the menial jobs are the easiest: you only need to hire somebody for half a day, there being a trillion others within easy reach to continue from where he or she left off. If it instead takes training, then obviously there's some sort of enthusiasm included, and so there you have it.
Timo Saloniemi
I was going to say it’s not transferable, but now I wonder if credits are replicated to real metal as a way to pay Cyrano Jones and the bartender in Iowa.
"We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity"
By being a waiter aboard the Enterprise-D's bar.
I mean..I get it. Gene once told Jon Frakes that "In the 24th century there will be no hunger and be no greed"
But greed is a fundamental aspect of humanity, as is the desire to acquire..things.
If one wants to explore the human condition you can't automatically eliminate two fundamental aspects
By being a waiter aboard the Enterprise-D's bar.
I mean..I get it. Gene once told Jon Frakes that "In the 24th century there will be no hunger and be no greed"
But greed is a fundamental aspect of humanity, as is the desire to acquire..things.
If one wants to explore the human condition you can't automatically eliminate two fundamental aspects
If you don't believe that negative aspects of the human nature can be overcome then you ultimately do not believe in the premise of Star Trek.
Gene also said people don't mourn death either.
Gene was well-meaning but naive. Nobody with their head screwed on straight would believe Gene's vision of utopia is possible, certainly not within the next 400 years.
Gene wasn't naive and I doubt even he believed it. But it was good hustle that appealed to the rubes.
Individual humans can overcome their negative aspects, true. If they try really, really hard.
But basic human nature will NEVER change.
Star Trek fandom does have a lot of well-meaning rubes. Face facts, we're not as sophisticated a fandom as we like to think.
So if you have fundamentally perfect humans..does that leave nothing but the well meaning but noble savage aliens that humans need to show the light of progress to?
Your collection of Jackass DVDs says otherwise.
A hit to the genitals is quality entertainment, my good man.
Which is why I refuse to give Nickelodeon my time.
That sounds very...troublesome.
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