It has to be. I mean, how does a capitalist society without the automation needed to permanently consolidate power over its underclasses and or replace them expand into space without collapsing? And that level of automation would lead to a collapse anyway. It just doesn't seem likely for a capitalist civilization to become spacefaring.
If capitalism is not a great filter, the universe is likely a dark forest, or at least should be treated as one until communist aliens are found.
If capitalism is a great filter, contact with aliens is humanity's best hope of not blowing itself up.
It has to be. I mean, how does a capitalist society without the automation needed to permanently consolidate power over its underclasses and or replace them expand into space without collapsing? And that level of automation would lead to a collapse anyway. It just doesn't seem likely for a capitalist civilization to become spacefaring.
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