They have rampant poverty in a society with true AI (that they have enslaved), FTL, incredibly fast sublight drives, and functionally unlimited energy generation.
And yet, forget living in the fully automatic luxury gay space commune, they keep losing to space fascists until a space wizard restores the terrible prior society.
Given sheer random chance and the understanding we have of a multi galactic universe, the meme is as true as the earth being the center of our system. We know nothing.