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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8809119" data-attributes="member: 18">As an aside, the Federation in TNG doesn't appear to tax individuals on a routine basis. That is part of why it functions so well. It's a post-scarcity society where all your basic needs - housing, food, clothing, entertainment and more - are provided for, and where you're given huge opportunities to do exciting things. As several TNG and other Trek episodes have said, not everyone takes advantage of that, but that's fine.I imagine the Federation might tax any entity it feels is taking advantage, and almost certainly has laws (post-Roddenberry leaving anyway) preventing people taking more than their fair share, but you don't have to work, and then give some of the products of that labour to the government (well, at least not in the human part of the Federation - you might on, say Bajor or Vulcan).Yeah, but that would be if this forum was called "A Better Class of Human Being" or something, wouldn't? "Good people not dumb people" or something like that. This isn't about a shared interest - this is about having very specific ethics/morality/ways of thinking.That's what makes it creepy. They're not all there just because they love giant glowing crystals, which would be the direct equivalent of ENworld. Unless we're saying people who like giant glowing crystals are inherently more moral/ethical than others! Maybe they are! Who knows lol.</blockquote>