Originally Posted by tandempower

I love Star Trek because they sometimes deal with the issue of money being useless in a society where people are able to produce whatever they need using replicators, etc. I recenlty watched an episode of TNG where Captain Picard or Data has to explain to someone from the past how future humans stop working to accumulate wealth and instead focus on self-betterment.

This could turn into a P&R topic quickly, but maybe we could save it by predicting how long it will take before technologies will be able to fully bloom in terms of their potential for reducing income-dependency and economic waste. Will it be a cold day in hell, or possibly sooner?