do you think we can do something to improve the situation ?,making that universe less distopic ?,even if no or only a little part of it i think it would be nice to try.
I tryed that one,a little to dry for my taste but a nice reading
Yes and no?
Really depends on what your goal is, we've already made some nice strides in terms in terms of the medical developments and distributing gene mods with charities as a universal health care, although in hindsight the fact that that didn't kick off a new wave of conspiracy theorists is SoD breaking. We were so naive before Covid.
Although I don't remember if we've implemented it yet, I think the cost of single person ships was getting low enough that that tech could be used for archeology building to replace slums.
However if you want to fix everything then we're fundamentally limited by being a single person with science super powers, and while Revy can do a lot, she's not actually better equipped to fix social problems that don't have a technological solution than anyone else... with the caveat that most other people can't hand a lot of money to someone who does have the necessary skills and say "Find a way to fix that for me." And even then, critics have pointed out that there are fundamental limits and contradictions that create problems that charity is unable to address successfully.
If just making everyone richer trickled down and around, the wealth gap and slum problems on earth would have been fixed over the last couple of centuries. Some things like Project Earthfall can be a good step however they're still limited in that our best factories are fully automated space stations which are terrible at providing good jobs to underserved communities. And even the jobs we can offer are likely going to require decent levels of education which may implicitly freeze slum dwellers out of being able to apply.
Furthermore when you look at some of the stuff: interfering in other species and nations politics isn't really feasible. We can't fund a grassroots political campaign to replace the Turian system with something more humanistic, because thats not how Military Junta's work.
We can advocate and lobby for better regulation and control over corporations, however PI despite how disproportionately influencial it is is actually a tiny % of the quadrillions that must be passing through the entire galactic community and those others will just as strongly be lobbying against us.
The problem at the end of the day is that, the endemic problems in the ME verse run DEEP. And to resolve them is the work of decades or centuries, not something that can be done on a quarterly timescale while balancing the company budget.
And even if our unironic best solution is to allow the Reapers to destroy everything so that we can rebuild the galaxy in our image with no competition. The Holy Revyarchy where societal position is determined by how big brain is not a concept without its own inherent problems.
