Even Roddenberry accepted that you needed a post-scarcity environment (replicators) to make his pie-in-the-sky, post-money paradise feasible. (Though this often left the human factions needing to literally barter random goods and resources like bronze age merchants in order to work with non-allied alien races).
Even Roddenberry accepted that you needed a post-scarcity environment (replicators) to make his pie-in-the-sky, post-money paradise feasible. (Though this often left the human factions needing to literally barter random goods and resources like bronze age merchants in order to work with non-allied alien races).
Why I love DS9.
"I'm human! I don't HAVE any money!"
"Look, it's not my fault your species decided to abandon currency based economics in favor of some philosophy of self enhancement"
"There's nothing wrong with our philosophy. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity."
"What does that mean exactly?"
"It means... it means we don't need money."
"Well if you don't need money, you certainly don't need MY money."
God Save The Ferengi Alliance!
Greed is eternal.