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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9579570" data-attributes="member: 907">This always struck me as one of those things where it got somewhat exaggerated. The Federation clearly has some kind of internal economy. The Picard family owns a vineyard and a castle in France, and in Picard Jean-Luc employs several Romulans as servants. We see private ownership of starships, both with Kassidy Yates and with Cristobal Rios. Sisko's dad runs a restaurant. What seems more likely to me is that the Federation is... not quite a post-scarcity society, but almost (I believe the Infinity setting uses the term "iota-scarcity") – there are some things that are in limited supply, and of course you can't pop up land out of nothing, but there are systems allowing for a robust basic income. People don't need to work, but some still do, and those who do probably don't work anywhere near the 40+ hours we work today.</blockquote>