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6/17/2025, 3:15:34 PM
It's been brushed on a bit here
>>95872002
but yeah Capitalism feels a bit inherently unstable. So it's fine for near(ish) futures, like Alien, but it feels anachronic for anything in the far future (one or ten thousand years in the future or more, like Dune, 40k, or the Xeelee sequence).
I don't even mean "unstable" in a bad way, necessarily. But because it's a system which (roughly) is all about increasing profits via growth, improvement in productivity and technological innovation, it feels like something that's either bound to hit a limit eventually and will need to change in nature, or collapse, or will push us to the next level.
The same-ish is true for "Victorian"/""Steampunk"" fantasy, in a horseshoe way.
Monarchy/feudalism, in contrast, feels like something that can last for thousands of years because we saw it lasting for thousands of years, in multiple historical examples. It has a timeless air to it.
>>95872002
but yeah Capitalism feels a bit inherently unstable. So it's fine for near(ish) futures, like Alien, but it feels anachronic for anything in the far future (one or ten thousand years in the future or more, like Dune, 40k, or the Xeelee sequence).
I don't even mean "unstable" in a bad way, necessarily. But because it's a system which (roughly) is all about increasing profits via growth, improvement in productivity and technological innovation, it feels like something that's either bound to hit a limit eventually and will need to change in nature, or collapse, or will push us to the next level.
The same-ish is true for "Victorian"/""Steampunk"" fantasy, in a horseshoe way.
Monarchy/feudalism, in contrast, feels like something that can last for thousands of years because we saw it lasting for thousands of years, in multiple historical examples. It has a timeless air to it.
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