I hate how modern science fiction and futurism is just “the same capitalist hellhole we live in now but with lasers and stuff”.

That reminds me of how EVE Online became unbearable for me after I looked too far into the lore and saw that it was a capitalist wet dream of immortal (ignoring the handwaves of whether those clones are a continuation of the same subjective being or just a new person burdened with a bunch of “uploaded” memories, and the handwave of how the “immortality” gets even more questionable if for any reason two, a hundred, or a million clones wake up at the same time) space feudal lords seeing their own crews (and entire planetary populations) as basically-invisible background noise that might be killed off by the thousands in a single sentence (to complete indifference from the immortal space feudal lords) to show how cool and edgy the setting is.

I hate how so many authors imagine that we’ll continue to have the same petty wars when the idea of a war in space become more and more absurd the more you think about it, the distances involved alone makes war on an interplanetary scale impossible.

I used to find “space trucker” stories to be fun and even somehow romantic but now I kind of hate them the more I think about how implausible they are to any civilization that has the technology for “space trucking” to actually depend upon it. Star Citizen has a laughably bad worldbuilding section where a planet-wide city is implied to be almost entirely supplied by “space truckers” one delivery at a time. If that was even possible it’d be a crime against economies of scale and be staggeringly wasteful.

or example, I don’t know if you’ve heard of “grabby aliens”. It’s a completely serious and unironic proposal for a “solution” to the Fermi paradox, the author is a famous scientist, the same guy who proposed the “great filter” hypothesis. It supposes that alien civilizations start expending in the universe and taking over star systems at a large fraction of the speed of light and because of that if we could see aliens they would be here instead of us and that’s why we don’t see aliens. Even in this short TL;DR there is glaringly obvious problems. This theory imediately falls apart as soon as you start asking questions about those “grabby aliens”, which as you might have guessed are justified ans an assumption by the classic liberal “greed, competition and expansionism is natural”

Sounds like that old “a thief believes everyone steals” saying to me.

and his plan to develop it is unironically space tourism for assholes billionaires and other private investments.

It is easier to imagine faster than light travel than the end of capitalism.