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• teft@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This man doesn’t have the lobes for business.

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• aeronmelon@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you can’t create artificial demand in a utopian society, what kind of Ferangi are you?

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Post-scarcity societies are good for business. Rule of Acquisition #74.

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  • teft@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Rule #74 is Knowledge equals profit. Are you reading some pirated copy of the rules?

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t give Hu-Mons the actual Rules of Acquisition. Rule of Acquisition #23.

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      • teft@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I see this is actually the Grand Nagus’ account. I’m sorry grand nagus. My apologies.

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      • n3m37h@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh Grand Nagus you are so smart!

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• Bonehead@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Define "post-scarcity". You can't replicate everything (without programmable matter, anyways...), and some raw materials are needed to build the replicators. And latinum is a rare commodity, though I don't know why it's so value beyond its scarcity. Greed will always be there as long as some things remain scarce yet required for a functioning society.

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  • c10l@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Latinum is only valuable outside of the Federation, where societies are not post-scarcity.

    Now, before you argue that there are no material conditions demanding scarcity in (some of) them, I’ll add that artificial scarcity is scarcity nonetheless.

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    • Bonehead@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In societies outside the Federation, where they don't have replicators, things have value due to being able to use them for other purposes. Latinum has never been shown to be used for any other purpose except to trade. Its not clear why a useless material is considered valuable, except for the fact that its rare.

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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Says a huh-man that uses paper to trade…

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  • teft@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Latinum is valuable because it can’t be replicated.

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    • Bonehead@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, but beyond its scarcity, what other purpose does it have? Lots of things are rare and can't be replicated, but their value comes from the need to use them for some purpose such the ability to build other things that you wouldn't be able to build otherwise. Latinum has never been shown as anything more than a currency with nothing behind it to give it value.

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      • teft@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What value does gold have other than it doesn’t rust and it looks pretty?

        It’s the same thing essentially. Latinum looks pretty and can’t be replicated therefore it’s a good currency.

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• Guildo@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Irrelevant, but it still exists.

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  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When everyone has unlimited access to stuff, one person wanting more does not deprive others of anything so it does not matter if it exists.

    IE: In a post scarcity society, greed becomes irrelevant.

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    • Guildo@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      but it still exists - even in Star Trek

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      • c10l@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re arguing against a straw man. They never said it ceases to exist, only that it’s irrelevant.

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