Science-Fiction is an excuse to talk about today's problems

It is said that Science-Fiction speculates about the future, but in truth it is often used to talk about today's problems.

Some examples:

• The Handmaid's Tale warns about surrogacy, and abortion bans.
• The Word for World is Forest draws parallelisms from the Vietnam War (which happened in Ursula K. LeGuin's time)
• Cyberpunk portraits the dangers of extreme capitalism.