Very true, and ironically, control of the masses by energy slavery, because money is energy, always physically, is what keeps us locked into being the energy scourge on the planet, which we are currently as a species, constantly throwing energy and all life from the planet as heat, with the result that the planet is now burning, already significantly desertified, in only a couple of thousand years.
If I recall rightly, star trek was projected to be way ahead of now, whereas we are seeing what was projected, now, much sooner, and star trek missed that we would be also destroying the planet.
But it looks like some bibles and other religious artifacts got it about right.
The end of days appear to be with us, and we might even say an ancient benevolent deity is back with us, embodied as the solar powered Ai.