To: Citizen Zed
Star Trek is fiction.
The Picard winery-restaurant scenario depicted is called barter. Money was invented to overcome the limitations of barter.
2 posted on
02/24/2015 9:42:13 PM PST by
Ray76
(Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
To: Ray76
The Picard winery-restaurant scenario depicted is called barter. Money was invented to overcome the limitations of barter. Actually it's a potlatch culture, which works in society characteriszed by periodic scarcity.
Remove the scarcity (ie replicators) and the culture becomes toxic.
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
37 posted on
02/24/2015 11:03:34 PM PST by
Oztrich Boy
(Television: Teacher, Mother, Secret Lover)
To: Ray76
nailed it
except... star trek wasn’t exactly fiction.
it was communist fantasy
45 posted on
02/25/2015 12:29:15 AM PST by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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