Something they addressed quite a bit in TNG — with the technology in that age, particularly the replicators and holodecks, with the cheap energy to power all of them, economics as you and I would understand it are not really valid any longer. Potentially, that might be closer to accurate than not.
How much did those Dylithium Crystal Miners get paid?
Dangerous Job, especially of you break into an Egg Chamber. Probably really hard to get Life Insurance.