There's a line in a recent episode of *Lower Decks * here Mariner tells a Ferengi "You know you could just replicate that, right?" Cuz the Ferengi were fighting w someone over...something, I forget. So much encapsulates that post-scarcity thing.
It was the Captain to a race of lizard-person-eating rat people after Mariner liberated the lizard people from their oppressors. One of the first handful of episodes in S01, I think. Something along the lines of, "if we give you replicators, will you stop eating the lizard people?"
Edit: It was further along than I thought; S01E09 - Crisis Point: The Rise of Vindicta. Link:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Crisis_Point_(episode)
I didn't know the MLM branch of communism was based on dupe glitches, guess I should read more theory.
Dupe glitches are the ultimate path to a post-scarcity society. It's basically the whole premise of Star Trek.
There's a line in a recent episode of *Lower Decks * here Mariner tells a Ferengi "You know you could just replicate that, right?" Cuz the Ferengi were fighting w someone over...something, I forget. So much encapsulates that post-scarcity thing.
It was the Captain to a race of lizard-person-eating rat people after Mariner liberated the lizard people from their oppressors. One of the first handful of episodes in S01, I think. Something along the lines of, "if we give you replicators, will you stop eating the lizard people?"
Edit: It was further along than I thought; S01E09 - Crisis Point: The Rise of Vindicta. Link:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Crisis_Point_(episode)
The scene is in the cold open.
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