We stipulate up front that wealth is a solved problem. There are incredible sources of energy driving incredible machines that do everything for us. The margina

We stipulate up front that wealth is a solved problem. There are incredible sources of energy driving incredible machines that do everything for us. The marginal product of anyone's labor is effectively zero. The people in Star Fleet aren't doing "labor" per se - food is by machine, I presume nobody has to do their own laundry, we've completely "enslaved" machines to do literally everything we don't want to. Just IMO, but power is a narrative artifact because stories want protagonists and antagonists. Social science uses the word "status", which is better.