I wish we lived in a post-scarcity Star Trek world where there’s no money except there is but not in the Federation except when it IS in the Federation and no one has any needs except when they do.

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I wish we lived in a post-scarcity Star Trek world where there’s no money except there is but not in the Federation except when it IS in the Federation and no one has any needs except when they do. - Lemmy.World

I’m glad there is no money in the Federation. Unless you count credits. Which are not money. Unless you use thousands of them to pay the Barzans. Or give them to Starfleet officers to buy things like tribbles and drinks at Quark’s.

Living in the federation sounds great til Starfleet goes and provokes some horrific alien empire for the 9000th time
Or the entire Federation gets taken over by some corrupt entity or entities. Or it’s just inherently corrupt.
That’s New Trek bullshit, and doesn’t belong in Roddenberry’s universe.

Are you sure about that?

Uh dude your neck is doing that thing again
How, exactly, people are corrupted when everyone else is pretty chill and they can’t be bribed is always a bit of a puzzler.