| deskpro2k3 said: this is why politics and money is useless. Everyone should switch over to a resource base economy like in Star Trek. |
I wouldn't call Star Trek a resource based economy so much as a technology based economy.
The economy in Star Trek only works because Technology makes it so that almost nobody has to work.
Replicator technology gets rid of the first law of economics. Scarcity. With Scarcity gone, everything more or less loses it's value, since it's nolonger scarce... and no longer in demand, because anything can be made at any time. (Except for a few banned substances, and oddly real booze.)
Technology, more or less handled most of the "dirty jobs" as well, so there really wasn't much need for dirty jobs.
In general the only jobs left are creative jobs, that a lot of people would do for free, and Presitge jobs... (The Federation)
These jobs would give you credits... which were used to purchase "creative" products. Like a bowl of Benjamin Sisco's fathers special gumbo Recipe that wasn't put in the replicators.
Anyway, the main point is. Star Trek's economy requires post scarcity... of almost everything... and post labor of any jobs people wouldn't want to do for free.
