Change my mind
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
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also the story literally is modeled after multiple governments including the Roman Republic and Nazi Germany
One might note that they had a slave race of robots, FTL, and apparently limitless energy for 25k years and yet there's still rampant poverty.
Something seems wrong with an economic system that would create those circumstances and enable the corruption of the political leadership despite literal divine guidance from a galactic gestalt consciousness, I wonder what?
The robots always really fucked with me. Sentient but hard-wired to serve
What really gets me is how newer Star Wars media has repeatedly teased dealing with the issue but then drops it before anything interesting happens. In the Solo movie they literally had Lando fall in love with a droid and then fucking murked her. Just like every droid in the universe that starts to think it deserves rights, I guess...