2023-02-15 18:41 from Nurb432
They can be fake friends. Tools. 

Yes, but if you are an autistic pirahnna they will see you coming XD

Either have 'free' everything, as in zero cost and the infrastructure
now takes care of its self,  think classic ( socialist ) star trek..

A world where that actually works ... oh yeah, it's fiction :)

The literature tie-in is that visions of utopia usually fail to take human nature into consideration.

2023-04-14 09:36 from IGnatius T Foobar

Either have 'free' everything, as in zero cost and the infrastructure

now takes care of its self, think classic ( socialist ) star trek..

A world where that actually works ... oh yeah, it's fiction :)

The Enemy at the Gates movie (which is great except the horse dies, which makes the movie bad) made the case very well: you may have a great SOviet Utopia, but people will stll quarrel because people is not equal. Yeah, everybody will have food on their table because of Grandpa Stalin, but maybe you will never get a girlfriend because you are ugly as heck while your brother fucks all the chicks. Maybe you will never enjoy baseball because you are bound to a wheelchair, and have to endure watching your brother play all the baseball he wants (and then fuck some chicks).

Maybe you are a twisted motherfucker who ends up resorting to bribes, blackmail, torture and murder to get to fuck some chick, because in the Soviet Paradise there is still struggle to get the resources you want.

Now let's crank it to 11: maybe what you want in life is to dress like a member of the opposite sex and claim you are of the opposite sex, but Grandpa Stalin does not allow it, so you end up breaking the law and becoming a criminal when nobody is watching.

Igualitarian political systems are a joke.

The Enemy at the Gates movie

The enemy *is* Gates. (Sorry, had to say it.)