Timeline for Why and how did the Star Trek Universe evolve to a cashless/commerce-less society?
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| Jan 4, 2020 at 5:12 | answer | added | WVR Spence WestVirginiaRebel | timeline score: 0 | |
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| S Sep 18, 2018 at 16:46 | history | suggested | Servitor |
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| Jan 1, 2017 at 15:47 | comment | added | Mark Ripley | @MasonWheeler "all economic systems...are based on...management of scarcity in basic resources". This is still true in the Federation, it's just that the replicators remove scarcity of physical items. The new scarcity is in unique creations, be they artworks or new hologram programs. The scarcity in the federation is one of manpower. You can duplicate a starship, but who is going to keep it from breaking while you are out exploring? Who designs the new generation of tech? Who keeps everything running? I now own 20 starships: who crews them, when my crew can create their own starships? | |
| Nov 20, 2016 at 20:25 | answer | added | Deks | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 26, 2016 at 15:07 | comment | added | Luaan | @MasonWheeler Of course it's not objective, and it has a fair bit of propaganda (after all, it's written as if by an imperial officer of the invading Empire :)). But his points still stand - there's no fault in those. And there's still plenty of scarcity in the Federation - the replicators are heavily used in Starfleet, but there's plenty of evidence that they're not all that common in Federation as a whole, and they still need raw materials. I expect they'd be most useful for making stuff like integrated circuits - tiny and difficult to manufacture. And you can't replicate a house. | |
| May 27, 2015 at 16:54 | history | edited | KutuluMike |
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| Feb 19, 2015 at 17:21 | answer | added | Christopher | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 8, 2014 at 20:35 | answer | added | anoxm | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 15, 2013 at 6:35 | answer | added | Jimmie Ray Giboney | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 10, 2012 at 15:46 | comment | added | pmiranda | I think it would be very interesting to have a series or movie focus on life outside of Starfleet in the Federation. I suppose there have been several episodes that at least brushed against it, but they shy away from the hard economics of how materials and land are distributed in the Federation. Was Picard's vineyard on land that his ancestors owned for generations? I imagine they could have accumulated it when other people were leaving Earth for other worlds... land on Earth is going to increase in value until there are less people on it, either by cataclysm or colonization of other worlds. | |
| Sep 29, 2011 at 16:11 | answer | added | KeithS | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 2, 2011 at 20:32 | answer | added | Chris B. Behrens | timeline score: 66 | |
| Jul 8, 2011 at 23:46 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | @fennec: You can hardly expect objectivity from an essay found on a site dedicated entirely to proving that Star Wars is superior to Star Trek in every possible way. The simple truth is that all economic systems we are currently familiar with are based on dealing with the problem of the management of scarcity in basic resources, and Star Trek's replicator technology nullifies this fundamental problem. Whatever economic system the Federation uses is neither capitalist nor communist because both are now too irrelevant to take seriously. | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 21:52 | answer | added | JohnWinkelman | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 14:28 | answer | added | Robert Brim | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jan 29, 2011 at 8:22 | comment | added | user586 | Stardestroyer.net's "The Economics of Star Trek": stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/Trek-Marxism.html | |
| Jan 21, 2011 at 7:55 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/28360097084211200 | ||
| Jan 21, 2011 at 6:58 | answer | added | Mike Scott | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jan 21, 2011 at 4:40 | answer | added | Omega Centauri | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jan 21, 2011 at 4:35 | vote | accept | Slick23 | ||
| Jan 21, 2011 at 2:54 | answer | added | Zypher | timeline score: 86 | |
| Jan 21, 2011 at 2:02 | answer | added | MPelletier | timeline score: 121 | |
| Jan 21, 2011 at 2:01 | answer | added | scotty | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 21, 2011 at 1:59 | comment | added | geoffc | It's the uniforms. No pockets, so you have to go cashless. :) | |
| Jan 21, 2011 at 1:52 | history | asked | Slick23 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |