A few weeks ago I read a social media post that talked about Star Trek; I can’t seem to find it right now, but it’s been stuck in my head since I read it. Star Trek was full of people doing art in their free time — painting, music, and so forth. And they were almost uniformly bad at it. Or, if not bad, at least not particularly good. The Star Trek universe seemed to have billions of people producing mediocre-at-best paintings with no commercial value, not because they wanted to be famou...
