Any good sci-fi out there that isn't apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, or some form of capitalism in the future? You know, some kind of portrayal of a better world is possible? Star Trek is an obvious one but I'm scratching my head trying to think of other examples.
The Culture series by Iain M Banks.
Skip the first one until later, they aren't chronologically linked for the most part.
It's about a full communist society in space, it's technically not fully automated because all the unenjoyable labor is done by fully sentient AIs, but they're so hyper intelligent that it takes like a trillionth of their attention.
A lot of the stories do include basically capitalist (or feudal) societies, but they're generally antagonists who can't possibly resist the inevitable influence of the Culture which seeks to both technologically uplift less developed societies and manipulate them into abandoning money, class structures, bigotry, etc.
EDIT: I guess I'm far from the only person here that likes Iain M Banks.
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Why is aliens gifting people in less technologically advanced societies with like immortality drugs and replicators a bad thing? Is it that they worked to influence other societies? Because they're literal communists and in the books I've read they're generally just pushing societies toward socialism and away from the worst excesses of capitalism.