I don't get it why many think the ED verse is so dystopian. It's far better than many sci-fi dystopian worlds, many of which don't even leave the earth or the solar system, or if they did, they are using generation ships if less than FTL. The best improvements to society in the hypothetical world is freedom of space expanded hundreds of times, practically limitless energy, and civilization wide accessible transportation. The real world is barely a decent place if you're lucky to not have been born or not have had moved to a western civ or developing country where you could be among the impoverished billion or so that have little hope of improving their lives. And looking at history there was a thousand years technologically wasted in the dark ages after the fall of rome, where the industrial revolution only came at the tail percent of overall history. Global population keeps exploding exponentially stressing economic and societal systems with globalization severely affecting stable population countries. As for societies, civilization has generally been crappy for most throughout history with only a few or none "free" countries. In that perspective, ED life would seem to have far more opportunities for billions in the bubble particularly of the main powers of the feds, imps, and alliance.
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