What the "Trekonomics" Fantasy Gets Wrong About the Economics of the Future
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Manu Saadia takes on Peter Thiel, as a proxy for Donald Trump, for saying that he prefers Star Wars over Star Trek because the setting is more capitalist. There's a lot of over-reading going on here, particularly because this all takes off from a short throwaway comment in an interview with Thiel where he comes across, frankly, as a pretty casual science fiction fan. It's hard for people in the technology media to grasp, but not everyone is as obsessive about overanalyzing science fiction as we are.
What the "Trekonomics" Fantasy Gets Wrong About the Economics of the Future
What the "Trekonomics" Fantasy Gets Wrong…
What the "Trekonomics" Fantasy Gets Wrong About the Economics of the Future
Manu Saadia takes on Peter Thiel, as a proxy for Donald Trump, for saying that he prefers Star Wars over Star Trek because the setting is more capitalist. There's a lot of over-reading going on here, particularly because this all takes off from a short throwaway comment in an interview with Thiel where he comes across, frankly, as a pretty casual science fiction fan. It's hard for people in the technology media to grasp, but not everyone is as obsessive about overanalyzing science fiction as we are.