This is fantastic: https://medium.com/@RickWebb/the-economics-of-star-trek-29bab88d50

This is fantastic: https://medium.com/@RickWebb/the-economics-of-star-trek-29bab88d50

Effectively, arguing that the Federation has such a large minimum basic income that it isn't even income anymore. This makes sense. Can we have a MBI now?

If we imagine post-scarcity as an interval from (0,1), with the federation at around the half-way mark ... 

Then, every society can be construed to partake of post-scarcity in some limited fashion. We've always had more than enough air, and enough land. 

Now we have more than enough food, for some definition of food. So, we're getting there. The question is not, if we should ensure a minimum standard of living -- society does by definition -- but, rather, what should it be?
https://medium.com/@RickWebb/the-economics-of-star-trek-29bab88d50