> Perhaps for the first time in history we need to rethink the whole model of production, needs, wants and consuming. A full blown Star Trek society is not “com

> Perhaps for the first time in history we need to rethink the whole model of production, needs, wants and consuming. A full blown Star Trek society is not “communism” as I saw it sometimes described, it’s “all-needs-are-met-ism” at zero cost. I want to believe. That vision is exactly what I would hope for my children. But any increase in productivity since at least the Industrial Revolution has been absorbed in to business owner/shareholder profits, I have no reason to believe otherwise unless enforced by law which is at best biased by lobbying and at worse full plutocracy. For many of us our highest value output is not in our value creation through work but in our spending as consumers. So it's possible that “all-needs-are-met-ism” will come around but not because of Star Trek rational clarity but as a means to feed consumer spending. So unfortunately probably closer to some Orwell Morlock/Eloi future.