The world of Star Trek was fully post scarcity. Rich/poor were not things that existed. They had to get through this before things got better: https://memory-a

The world of Star Trek was fully post scarcity. Rich/poor were not things that existed. They had to get through this before things got better: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots