Comment on Rule of Acquisition #10: Greed is eternal

Sheeple@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, they have world peace, and don’t practice things like genocide or threats of mutual assured destruction.

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One of my favorite moments in Deep Space Nine is when quark and Sisko are on a camping trip, and Sisko goes on the usual spiel about how greedy ferrangi are…

    And Quark fires back by pointing out that his people have never had war, genocide, or slavery, and Sisko’s got nothing because he knows humans can’t say the same

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    • Jaccident@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I feel the scene is deeper than that. Quark isn’t just dunking Sisko, he’s shining a light on the fact that Sisko doesn’t see the Ferengi as they are, rather he uses the surface level similarities of capitalism to apply his human anxiety about pre-post-scarcity to them instead.

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s also the episode where the three Ferengi go back in time to (I think) the Roswell incident in mid 20th century USA.

      Quark is repeatedly appalled at the stuff the hu-mons are doing to hurt themselves and destroy the planet. Smoking and testing nuclear fission bombs come to mind.

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Although they do practice slavery and piracy.

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not slavery, according to Quark.

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      • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ok but they definitely do. Quark might not be the most reliable commentator.

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