Although they do practice slavery and piracy.
Comment on Rule of Acquisition #10: Greed is eternal
marcos@lemmy.world 9 months agoWell, they have world peace, and don’t practice things like genocide or threats of mutual assured destruction.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 9 months ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not slavery, according to Quark.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 9 months ago
Ok but they definitely do. Quark might not be the most reliable commentator.
samus12345@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Probably not. When is it shown that they practice slavery?
HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 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
Jaccident@lemm.ee 9 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.
Zink@programming.dev 9 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.