I love the THINK OF THE WORLDWIDE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THIS ! ! sentiments . Because blasting out post after post of fake news stories vilifying certain races , starting witch hunts , etc isn ' t dangerous at all . <| sep |> Is r 6 one of the games that won ' t run without windows ? I read the library is cut in half without windows . <| sep |> They just look like feet to me . <| sep |> Not an economist but a social geographerMy opinion is that to beat the ' tragedy of the commons ', the Federation either has more stuff that it ever needs or everyone ' respects ' the resources they ' re using and never takes more than they need . The human population on Earth is stagnant . People don ' t have outrageous life expediencies or more than the 2 . 14 children it takes to sustain a population or there is quite a lot of migration to other planets . Where there is a conflict of resource use , which seems to me to be holodecks or transporter use then things are rationed equally . You don ' t get more of thing because of your job . There is presumably some kind of bartertrade system where people give up one resource for another but the concept of a single currency which values everything is dead and buried . Crucial to the Federation is its volunteer economy , where people essentially work for free to better themselves , the product of that labour is then spread equally among the population . To answer your question , there isn ' t a class system although droids and holograms get a raw deal . You don ' t really see much of the grand Federation economy , I get the impression that there are lot of independent familysized organizations that run shops businesses for fun or as a hobby and on the larger scales the member worlds have their own centrally managed economies . Earth seems to have all its power stations in Lisbon , so at least the power generation industry is nationalised . You could replicate what you want a public replicator but as mentioned , the culture of respecting your resources and any actual ' value ' of goods prevents most people from abusing the system . However , as is probable in such an open system , there will be abuses , and in the Federation I believe there is a division of the local security force that pops round to your house and wonders if there is something wrong with your replicator spamming cups of earl grey . You don ' t just have to have money to keep your economy in line .