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The United Federation of Planets doesn’t even use money, and it’s post-scarcity so they don’t run out of resources.
by labster 6y ago
The United Federation of Planets doesn’t even use money, and it’s post-scarcity so they don’t run out of resources.
- zoshi 6y agoShips, planets, space, etc. are scarce and owned by various actors. The Federation is an interplanetary government made of sovereign member states, many of which do trade and use money. Even without the use of trade, there must be systems for determining who controls what.
- robotbikes 6y agoThis discussion makes me wish that I had borrowed the book Trekonomics from my friend when he offered to loan it to me. - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trekonomics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trekonomics
- edoceo 6y agoreplicators tho. makes a huge difference. we're headed away from UFP and more towards DOOP.
- imagineerschool 6y agoThey run out of resources all the time and it drives many plots!
- dexterous 6y agoI had a feeling someone was eventually going to pull this one out. :)
- drdeca 6y agofictitious evidence isn't.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> The United Federation of Planets doesn’t even use money Well, they occasionally say they don’t (and Roddenberry said they don’t), but they actually do (or discussing the fact that they do) in every single one of the series, and several of the movies. > and it’s post-scarcity so they don’t run out of resources. They do run into resource limits. Also, the UFP is, you known, fiction, and not even haed science fiction (or even particularly internally consistent fiction.)