Trek's most ridiculous contentions...

[kv1at3485]

^ I think what you mean is that affordable housing is scarce. 'Land' in this regard means very little if you can put together giant orbital habitats, or apartment buildings. Of course, whether people can afford to live in those habitats or apartment buildings is a completely different story.

As for post-scarcity, all that means is that there are sufficient resources to meet the needs of the population and that such resources maybe easily procured and distributed. It has nothing to do with the absolute amount of resources available.

 

[cultcross]

There are homeless people, so by definition, land must be scarce.

sorry, but that's an argument worthy of our worst TNZ debates.
I don't have a car, so, by definition, cars must be scarce.
I don't have a TV, so, by definition, TVs must be scarce.
Many africans are without food - therefore, by definition, food must be scarce.

Nonsense, there's plenty of land for our population, we just don't distribute it evenly. same with most resources. Add an essentially infinite ability to spread out and colonise other worlds and land really ceases to become an issue.

I'm not all-knowing, of course. But I know enough to recognize that communism is dead.

One form of government using that type of ideal is dead. trek certainly puts forward the possibility that humanity can iron out the major flaw in the system - selfishness - and make it a viable system of government. Too much to be believable? I don't know, but I don't think Trek's idea that finding out we're not alone makes us all pull together is actually that ridiculous.

 

[EnsignRicky]

Just to let you know that omhguy is now banned.

Good. With over a dozen childish posts in one day, I went from never having heard of him to never wanting to hear from him again, in under sixty seconds.

 

[Sean Aaron]

I'm not all-knowing, of course. But I know enough to recognize that communism is dead.

Your statements seem to imply certainties about human interaction and societies which aren't true today let alone rule out possibilities for the future.