>>16977149 >>16977148 The "moneyless utopia" generates huge problems. Every coin has two sides.
The Federation economy pretty trapping and controlling and acted as a fairly solid brick wall for social mobility. In the new "Picard" series, the captain has grown old, and has retired from Starfleet to run his ancestral vineyard in France. This is great for him, a man who has inherited this land, but what would happen if someone else wanted a change in career and wanted to make wine? How could one can they "buy" a vineyard when money no longer exists? Picard shows that inherited wealth is still prevalent, as Picard explicitly owns the vineyard, and there is no suggestion of a communist or sharing scheme. The Federation economy only makes it harder for everyone else to achieve dreams unrelated to what they were born into. The same issue is present with the morally ambiguous Captain Sisko's New Orleans restaurant in DS9. It's great for Sisko, but what about someone else who wants to open up their own place in the same area? The lack of money eliminates even the possibility of purchasing an establishment. The only other option to rely on a barter system which, effectively, is a primitive and far less measurable form of currency. If one doesn't have the inherited wealth, what exactly can they offer in exchange that the "wealthy" would not already have?
