More like socialism, and even then there are a lot of asterisks.
The Federation has a credit system to buy luxuries. It’s a utopian democracy with socialist values and systems that have somehow withstood the test of time in away all current attempts at socialist programs in a democracy have not.
As far as credits go, my working theory is that the difference between credits and currency as we know it is that it’d be useless as an investment vehicle. You can use them to buy goods and services, but you can’t buy a company.
How that works, exactly, is about as detailed as the Heisenberg Compensator.
How that works, exactly, is about as detailed as the Heisenberg Compensator.
the whole star trek economic utopia is exactly this detailed.
“we no longer work to accumulate wealth”, except someone gets the apartment with view on golden gate bridge and starfleet academy, and someone gets a chance to colonize a planet on cardassian borders. how do they decide who gets what?
When communism is no longer demonized. (Star Trek is basically space communism.)
More like socialism, and even then there are a lot of asterisks.
The Federation has a credit system to buy luxuries. It’s a utopian democracy with socialist values and systems that have somehow withstood the test of time in away all current attempts at socialist programs in a democracy have not.
As far as credits go, my working theory is that the difference between credits and currency as we know it is that it’d be useless as an investment vehicle. You can use them to buy goods and services, but you can’t buy a company.
How that works, exactly, is about as detailed as the Heisenberg Compensator.
the whole star trek economic utopia is exactly this detailed.
“we no longer work to accumulate wealth”, except someone gets the apartment with view on golden gate bridge and starfleet academy, and someone gets a chance to colonize a planet on cardassian borders. how do they decide who gets what?
Except the fact the federation is tolerant of other religious beliefs, cultures and political systems.
The Borg are far more communist than the federation.
give me Fully Automated Laser Space Gay Communism (so… DS9?) or give me tacos. i like tacos too.