[A CA Guy]

I knew the writers were out of their minds when they said there was no such thing as money in the future (in a past movie with the Borg) and everybody worked for the common good. (COMMUNISM)

Beam them the writers up Scotty!!

[Grig]

"I knew the writers were out of their minds when they said there was no such thing as money in the future (in a past movie with the Borg) and everybody worked for the common good. (COMMUNISM) "

No, not communism. In Trek, any physical item can be replicated faster and easier than burning a copy of a CD is today, so each person is able to aquire what they need/want quickly at no cost. Economics as we know it would not exist in such a situation and it would be as if every person was wealthy.

Freed from the need to aquire money, they devote their time to the pursuits that interest them most. They are not pooling the results of their labour and dividing them up.