How does Star Trek’s future society work? A world without money seems alien to the point of impossibility to many people. The difficulty in answering this qu...
It still doesn’t really make much sense in a world where the vast majority of things are replicated. The only things that would give them worth are things that cannot be replicated:
Things that can not be replicated, or are too complex to replicate easily.
I’m sure, given enough energy and processing power, you could replicated just about anything… but if they already exist naturally, why bother? If it takes less energy to mine, or mix, or harvest latinum than it takes to replicate it, then replication doesn’t make sense for it. That goes for just about every other physical thing as well.
It still doesn’t really make much sense in a world where the vast majority of things are replicated. The only things that would give them worth are things that cannot be replicated:
Things that can not be replicated, or are too complex to replicate easily.
I’m sure, given enough energy and processing power, you could replicated just about anything… but if they already exist naturally, why bother? If it takes less energy to mine, or mix, or harvest latinum than it takes to replicate it, then replication doesn’t make sense for it. That goes for just about every other physical thing as well.