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Originally Posted by Greg Anos
It didn't self annihilate because society deterrmined there was a value in monetizing something that had no value under the standard rules of property. So rules were written to provide an incentive for creating new IP. Societies did not do this for moral reasons, but to get more IP. The reason to not extend IP for great lengths, it the blunt fact that dead people don't create.
Creating rules to monetize IP did not suddenly turn it into PP. It created a pseudo PP thing that is inherently a wasting asset (it goes to zero). There are other wasting asset that exist, such as options.
As to late Star Trek, I'm not certain that the "money free" economy really existed. If it did, why didn't everybody have their own interstellar spacecrafts? And why were there cargo ship? Why would anybody (other than maybe the Ferengi) want to waste their intellectual development on moving boxes around the galaxy? Food for thought.
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Picard briefly explains it in the movie ‘First Contact’ people work for the betterment of mankind (which seems to include alien species as well). However I’m not sure if this is just within Star Fleet, The Federation of Planets, or if it’s got some limits even within those.
Though certainly the replicators play a large part in this, I’m not sure when they pop into existence I don’t recall them being in the original series. Another factor is warp power which seems to, with the tech they have, be a highly efficient and extremely clean source of energy which takes up a rather small amount of space.
Of course another thing which probably helped was World War III which was pretty devastating. Oh and of course the revaluation that not only were we not alone in the universe but the aliens were friendly (well as much as a Vulcan can be friendly) and way more advanced than us.