They never do specify how the economy of that world works, it’s just a utopic “welp, we don’t use money anymore”. A seemingly efficient universal energy-to-matter conversion would help a lot in that pursuit. And robots.
I believe most rich people are there already in the real world, though. It’s only the Elon Musks who care about wealth beyond like 50 million dollars or some such. Steelmanning the free markets project: the goal is for everyone on the planet to have the equivalent of 50 million dollars or some such – that’s essentially the world of Star Trek. Just because you’re not using literal money to count the wealth doesn’t make it not wealth.
Just like every middle class person on this planet can walk 10 minutes to a store and spend 1% of their monthly income to buy a bottle of red wine that is likely better than anything kings in 1500s would ever drink in their lives. Not to mention what kind of technology we have.
TNG happens in about year 2300-2400. Even if we’re not in post-scarcity by then, the amount of wealth that everyone will have is going to look like post-scarcity by our standards.
They never do specify how the economy of that world works, it’s just a utopic “welp, we don’t use money anymore”. A seemingly efficient universal energy-to-matter conversion would help a lot in that pursuit. And robots.
I believe most rich people are there already in the real world, though. It’s only the Elon Musks who care about wealth beyond like 50 million dollars or some such. Steelmanning the free markets project: the goal is for everyone on the planet to have the equivalent of 50 million dollars or some such – that’s essentially the world of Star Trek. Just because you’re not using literal money to count the wealth doesn’t make it not wealth.
Just like every middle class person on this planet can walk 10 minutes to a store and spend 1% of their monthly income to buy a bottle of red wine that is likely better than anything kings in 1500s would ever drink in their lives. Not to mention what kind of technology we have.
TNG happens in about year 2300-2400. Even if we’re not in post-scarcity by then, the amount of wealth that everyone will have is going to look like post-scarcity by our standards.