18th March 2010, 3:23 AM
etoven Wrote:That Idea worked awesome for the Federation in StarTrek. To bad humanity has a long way to go before that will happen, it's a shame though, it would solve just about all the worlds problems.
The concept, as seen in Star Trek, is even more ridiculous than Marxist Communism--and, given the multitude of conflicts, internal and external, it didn't seem to solve anything for the Federation. The Federation is, essentially, communism in a mostly-idealized (read: incompatible with human nature) form.
Quote:Explain how 'wealth' could be gotten rid of, and not create a communist society?
A post-scarcity scenario involves material goods being so easy to manufacture that they incur no cost and require no manual labor to create. A scenario in which everyone can have everything they could possibly want, as far as physical objects go. This is one of the loftier goals of nanotechnology. At such a point, the only currency of any value would be ideas.
Quote:That's the only way to keep the excesses of capitalism under control.
Who is to keep the excess of government under control?
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