Jimmy Alfonso Licon 🦚🌵

In Star Trek, the Federation doesn't have money, but Picard mentions earning days of shore leave which you spend on the permanent vacation planet. But in an economy with no money somebody has to be rationing rooms at the resort. Because otherwise what would it mean to work for one day vs. a hundred to earn some consumption privilege? The concept of time off only make sense as a condition of continued employment, like if you skip work on the starship to go to the pleasure planet, you don't get to be on the starship anymore. But this relies on the idea that service in Starfleet is so prestigious that people submit to its own rules of service for fear of being kicked back down to the permanent UBI consumer class who don't do anything interesting.