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>Oy vey the government needs to go to war or else we'll lose our living standard
I didn't say that. I meant that people don't just wake up one day and skip stages of historical development and are like "hey, let's organize our society to XYZ principles!". Every society reproduces itself, slave owners think they have a right to own another person, feudal lords think they have a right to distribute usufruct rights over this plot of land, etc. - this applies to society today, still. At least ST wasn't idealistic in that regard, they needed WWIII for humanity to unite.
>If we assume this to be true, than we can say that the other races never caught the socialism mind-virus and as such don't have any desire to virtue-signal by wasting their time trying to uplift some alien culture, they've got more important shit to do.
There are dozens of episodes (and Insurrection which is like a two-parter) where interstellar species fuck with primtive ones because they want a raw material. Now if we take the laws of this universe seriously, and remember how populated it is, there is no way primitive races are exploited literally all the time.