Well, unless someone can come up with a moneyless system (which even the bull-moose commies and Roddenberry-ites can't seem to imagine), the only real competitor for the currency system is good old-fashioned barter.

(Of course, the only reason humans do "higher" things for fun in the Trek world, is because someone already took away all the television, movies, and social media as distractions. Oh, and drugs and real alcohol, too. So they might as well learn how to paint.)

Well, unless someone can come up with a moneyless system (which even the bull-moose commies and Roddenberry-ites can't seem to imagine), the only real competitor for the currency system is good old-fashioned barter.

(Of course, the only reason humans do "higher" things for fun in the Trek world, is because someone already took away all the television, movies, and social media as distractions.)

Well, unless someone can come up with a moneyless system (which even the bull-moose commies and Roddenberry-ites can't seem to imagine), the only real competitor for the currency system is good old-fashioned barter.