Star Trek: Why A World Without Currency Is The Way Forward

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During many of the explorations into theStar Trek franchise, Earth has been shown as a shining beacon of human creativity and ingenuity, the pinnacle of what humans can achieve when everyone bands together and looks past their differences. Gene Roddenberry created this world specifically as an example of what a culture could do when issues of race, sexuality, and more, were not a discriminating factor. He also presented a civilization where money, something in modern society that tends to be heralded as the building block of everything, is obsolete.

It's a nice change, this wonderful prediction of humanity's future, distancing itself from the dystopian projections common within a lot of science fiction. The members of the United Federation of Planets live unbound by the confines of being obliged to earn enough money to simply survive. Instead, everyone in their society is given the necessary things required in order to live. Food and water are provided simply by asking a replicator for something — even things like clothes can be replicated in a blink of an eye. Who needs a walk-in wardrobe when one can download any item of clothing in a second, like crafting in a video game? This does raise the question, however: why, if one gets nothing from it, would anyone have a job?

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Explaining this comes, in part, directly from one of the audience's most beloved Starfleet captains. Jean-Luc Picard, coming back right now in Picard's second season, states that once world hunger was solved, humans moved past their infant need for possessions. What motivates people in this utopia is not money, but prestige and admiration from those around oneself, as well