posted on Jan, 20 2010 @ 03:49 PM
Who doesn't want a Star Trek like Utopia? However, then one has to ask, who cleans up the mess when a green crew member can't hold in his Romulan
Ale as the ship goes to Warp 8?
Thing is, until we have technology that self sustains, self-repairs, and self-replicates, we'll still need people to do jobs they wouldn't
necessarily want to do, but have to do...
There will always be some kind of reward system (even on Star Trek...sure, no money, but Captain's got better digs, don't he?) Even if there is just
barter, money will never die...
Society is built upon specialization, and hand-in-hand with that, is the dependence on others who have a different specialty that you need...and so,
you have money as a universal way to assign "worth" to a good or service...
Even if all of our needs were cared for, there would still be those who want more, and those who are content to "exist"....