"You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century"

[Swiftmayhem]

In the next 300 years, the general population will look at capitalism and representative democracy in the same way that we look at feudalism and monarchy.

 

[TheGoodNews]

In the next 300 years, the general population will look at capitalism and representative democracy in the same way that we look at feudalism and monarchy.

Maybe in only half that time.

 

[7437]

The problem is that sustenance may be the prime driving force, but it isn't the only one. Even "post-scarcity" people desire status, more desirable sexual partners, hell, a nicer view. There will never be a true scarcity of all available resources within any given society, in any given geography, at any given time.

The idea that such a possibility even exists is the myth that has driven men mad in pursuit of these utopias.

pretty much this. people will always want things. you cant socially engineer out ambition.

 

[TheGoodNews]

pretty much this. people will always want things. you cant socially engineer out ambition.

"Yet so far as one could judge the people were contented and hopeful. There was no unemployment, and the price of living was still extremely low; you saw very few conspicuously destitute people, and no beggars except the gypsies. Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and freedom. Human beings were trying to behave as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. In the barbers' shops were Anarchist notices (the barbers were mostly Anarchists) solemnly explaining that barbers were no longer slaves. In the streets were coloured posters appealing to prostitutes to stop being prostitutes." George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia page 6

Of course creating an egalitarian society can be an ambition itself.