Capt. Picard "economics of the future are somewhat different"

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Cites financialize · 2021-05 · on “Ask HN: What's a problem you wish someone else would solve already?”

Capitalism. It should have disappeared by now and been replaced with Star Trek type economics ( [this video] ) and yet here we are surrounded by idiots that seek to optimize numbers in databases at the expense of everything else.

Cites Barrin92 · 2021-12 · on “Web3 is going just great”

Instrumentalizing a show whose essential message was that living in a post-scarcity society is possible and where people pursue their interests genuinely rather than in the name of economic gain to make a case for crypto is so on brand with the actual post we're commenting on you could put it directly on the website Let's just listen to the man himself for a second, while we're talking about star trek and money: [this video]

Cites tiffanyg · 2023-07 · on “The Cluetrain Manifesto”

Very true. Sadly, while "companies" play a very large role, ultimately, it's people. The dynamics are, I think, somewhat interesting. The essential pattern appears like "theme and variations", woven endlessly through human history that I'm familiar with. It has been possible, in brief periods, to imagine that perhaps we had moved past some of it ... grown a bit, on the whole. But, it's really difficult to imagine we might ever reach a sort of "Star Trek: First Contact" ... "economic regime"*. Circumstances continually evolve and even relatively subtle changes in policies and principles and such, at scale, can make a big difference. One key problem is simply that the cohesion and principled b