We are post scarcity. From a technology viewpoint, it would be trivially easy to produce enough to give everybody a good standard of life. The only obstacles are political.
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The Federation manages everything it does without being a post-scarcity economy too. Dilithium is a scarce resource and they need it to power their replicators.
We're just waiting for replicators.
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Replicators we want:

Replicators we are on track to get:

We don’t need them to start making a better world. The federation didn’t have them in the beginning either.
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If we're going to follow the same path, they did in fact have a massive global war that wiped a good chunk of the world population.
I'd say we're on track! 😀
I’d settle for holosluts.
No ism works. That's why everyone isn't using one system.
Okay, start the downvotes.
says the future where colonist land is given away to appease monsters.
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