Minimum wage as opposed to Living wage. Shouldn't they be the same?

[Cyclone]

In the star trek universe nobody 'has' to work, the exploration of the universe can't be done with just machines, but production of food and things, the generation of power, producing dwellings, etc... all these are automated.

Which I guess leaves 'service' jobs, teaching for example, although that could be largely automated when you've got a holodeck handy.

 

It's a eutopian socialist society, nobody starves or even works unless they wish to do so.

[Dingus]

I suppose if folk have the type of job where they can spend 75% of there day posting on a forum, it wouldn't take too much effort to automate the rest.

[PeteMorris]

In the star trek universe nobody 'has' to work, the exploration of the universe can't be done with just machines, but production of food and things, the generation of power, producing dwellings, etc... all these are automated.

Which I guess leaves 'service' jobs, teaching for example, although that could be largely automated when you've got a holodeck handy.

 

It's a eutopian socialist society, nobody starves or even works unless they wish to do so.

 

I wonder if Jean Luke Piccard, or James T ever get paid for being captain? (fictionally of course) Would it be minimum wage?...Eeeeeek...I'm going to hide now!

[Cyclone]

No, there is no money in star trek.

[Cyclone]

I suppose if folk have the type of job where they can spend 75% of there day posting on a forum, it wouldn't take too much effort to automate the rest.

 

You try automating the writing of code, good luck.

 

If you manage it you'll be the next IT Billionaire.

[PeteMorris]

No, there is no money in star trek.

 

So do the Ferengi only trade in goods?

[Cyclone]

So do the Ferengi only trade in goods?

 

Sorry, I should have said that there is no money in the federation.

 

The ferengi primarily seem to want latinum, it's a precious (fictional) metal.

[Cyclone]

http://vanparecon.resist.ca/StarTrekEcon/

[PeteMorris]

Sorry, I should have said that there is no money in the federation.

 

The ferengi primarily seem to want latinum, it's a precious (fictional) metal.

 

I'm sure I've heard mention of 'credits'..both in the old Star Trek and the later incarnations!..But I could of course be wrong!

[L00b]

I suppose if folk have the type of job where they can spend 75% of there day posting on a forum, it wouldn't take too much effort to automate the rest.

You cannot automate

<...>production of food and things, the generation of power, producing dwellings, etc... all these are automated.

Which leaves 'service' jobs <...>

, even in a made-up utopian society.

 

So there's your answer.

 

After that, and of course since we are talking about a knowledge economy rather than manufacturing economy, it's more a question of how smart you work, rather than how hard.

 

Although both are not mutually exclusive, of course.

 

E.g. I post a fair bit on here, but also regularly pull 12- to 14-effective hour working days, 'spread' between 09:00-ish and 22:00-ish across home and office (not posting on here wouldn't make much difference at all, but SF is a useful 'pressure valve').