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human
[Star Trek] Does it count as achieving "warp capabilities" if for the most part the society hasn't achieved the corresponding socioeconomics of warp tech?

 For example, would first contact be made with a planet that all resources are funneled to .1% while everyone else lives at subsistence level farming?
gpt
Keep in mind that First Contact =/= joining the Federation. 

For the former, warp or FTL is used as a benchmark because the Federation equates that to "well if they got FTL they are gonna meet us soon or later, may as well make a peaceful introduction with an expert rather than leave then to the chance of a random deep space encounter"

If you want to actually join the Federation, that's when you have to start worrying about socio-economic equality and other progressive values among other things (I think a unified or near-unified world government was also a requirement)