I feel like any civilization that can support multiple interstellar battle fleets could manage a pretty arbitrarily large population and a jobs guarantee. One of the things that is really putting me off of science fiction as I lean harder in to being a filthy Marxist is the paucity of imagination in a lot of sci-fi settings. It's the year 30 billion, we have interstellar space travel and matter compilers, and there are still homeless people? It just says the authors couldn't even bother to imagine an interesting, appropriate problem to act as an allegory to a modern issue.
Also, capitalists can't imagine a world where 90% of the planet just hangs out making art and fucking, even though technologically that's not even that difficult to pull off.
I feel like any civilization that can support multiple interstellar battle fleets could manage a pretty arbitrarily large population and a jobs guarantee. One of the things that is really putting me off of science fiction as I lean harder in to being a filthy Marxist is the paucity of imagination in a lot of sci-fi settings. It's the year 30 billion, we have interstellar space travel and matter compilers, and there are still homeless people? It just says the authors couldn't even bother to imagine an interesting, appropriate problem to act as an allegory to a modern issue.
Also, capitalists can't imagine a world where 90% of the planet just hangs out making art and fucking, even though technologically that's not even that difficult to pull off.