Hello @Jenaer , and welcome. I am Alberto, and I absolutely see where you are coming from.
We started the Sci-Fi Econ Lab as a tongue-in-cheek space for discussion about bold economic ideas. The main idea was to make intellectual space for radically different economic systems, as we found that the long imperium of neoclassical econ had resulted in an atrophy of our ability to imagine anything different from minor tweaks of the dominant model.
Maybe it is my own interests speaking, but it seems that this journey is easiest and most fun if you attempt to give a very practical dimension to economic imagery. For example, I really enjoyed coming up with the Great Retrofit world with Ha-Joon Chang, mixing a good 95% of real-world elements with a 5% of science fiction.
If I think about science fiction, in general, I find it consists most of thought experiments. Authors start with a main idea, and apply it to a society that looks mostly like our own. What of we had FTL travel? Human cloning? Designer babies? Telepathy? Generally intelligent humanoid robots? And so on. Most of them are interested in technology, not economics; but we can apply the same method to economic institutions or models we like. For example, I am involved in building a cohousing in Brussels. Nothing science fictional about cohousing, it’s right there. But this can be a seed of a worldbuilding exercise. What would the world look like if cohousing was the rule, rather than the exception? That would mean that the housing stock would be de-financialized and become an element of sociality. What would this be like? A lot of solarpunk moves from similar prompts.
Would this be an acceptable angle of attack? What economic idea or institution would you like at the center of your thought experiment?
I am taking the liberty of moving this thread into the Sci-Fi Econ Lab’s space, let me know if you want me to undo the change.