If everything is inherently free, that sort of solves half the problems of communism. Replicators work by converting energy into whatever form can be programmed into it. So you have free energy and free material goods. But this gives rise to another problem: the energy needed to create a cup of Earl Grey tea (hot) is enough to vaporize a city. Can everyone be trusted with that?
Replicators don’t create matter from energy, they rearrange matter to make things.🤔