My head canon is that instead of monetary rewards for doing important or dangerous work, you get more land to use. That would mean trashmen, farmers, nurses, and starship crew would have huge palaces and ceos would live in a shoebox. Picard gets double sized because he’s a captain and a farmer. Same with Boimler.
I rather thought that there were no “palaces” and no “shoeboxes“, but still a varied range of accommodations that are a mix between inheritance and state ownership where they lend it to an individual or our family.
There’s a very good reason why most sci-fi series that espouse a futuristic socialistic utopian future never really get into the details. Because we, today, haven’t figured that shit out yet.
I always thought that land wasn’t really an issue since there are thousands of star fleet planets. Also I assumed earth would have more attractive land available since there wouldn’t be a need for a lot of transportation infrastructure in the future(transporters, stuff flies,etc)
There are “only” around 150 Federation planets in the TNG era, probably most with extremely high quality of life like Earth, but you might not feel as welcome there. I mean imagine living on Vulcan, sheesh.
There are thousands of colonies and room for lots more, but colony life is dangerous and relatively rough.
I mean there’s only so much ocean view property in San Francisco available. But I think you’re right about transporters and replicators - with the ability to go anywhere nothing needs to be novel, and everyone is basically free to homestead wherever they want without actually having to work.
It seems like colony life is really only dangerous and rough when they’re first getting established. In enterprise and strange new worlds most of the colonies further from our solar system probably aren’t ideal, but by TNG there must be hundreds of well-established colonies with high quality of life that we just never see because nothing interesting happens there. I mean at the very least we see the one in the ghost fucking episode where everyone just decided they wanted to live like 1800s scotland, but they were safe and happy there for a long time and there’s no reason they couldn’t have had a more futuristic way of life. Their weather was fully controlled to simulate the highlands.
I imagine that outside of industry and population centers, most other areas would become a natural preserve. That is, unless an Admiral owes you a favor.
My head canon is that instead of monetary rewards for doing important or dangerous work, you get more land to use. That would mean trashmen, farmers, nurses, and starship crew would have huge palaces and ceos would live in a shoebox. Picard gets double sized because he’s a captain and a farmer. Same with Boimler.
Poor Boimy has it rough.
I rather thought that there were no “palaces” and no “shoeboxes“, but still a varied range of accommodations that are a mix between inheritance and state ownership where they lend it to an individual or our family.
There’s a very good reason why most sci-fi series that espouse a futuristic socialistic utopian future never really get into the details. Because we, today, haven’t figured that shit out yet.
I always thought that land wasn’t really an issue since there are thousands of star fleet planets. Also I assumed earth would have more attractive land available since there wouldn’t be a need for a lot of transportation infrastructure in the future(transporters, stuff flies,etc)
There are “only” around 150 Federation planets in the TNG era, probably most with extremely high quality of life like Earth, but you might not feel as welcome there. I mean imagine living on Vulcan, sheesh.
There are thousands of colonies and room for lots more, but colony life is dangerous and relatively rough.
I mean there’s only so much ocean view property in San Francisco available. But I think you’re right about transporters and replicators - with the ability to go anywhere nothing needs to be novel, and everyone is basically free to homestead wherever they want without actually having to work.
It seems like colony life is really only dangerous and rough when they’re first getting established. In enterprise and strange new worlds most of the colonies further from our solar system probably aren’t ideal, but by TNG there must be hundreds of well-established colonies with high quality of life that we just never see because nothing interesting happens there. I mean at the very least we see the one in the ghost fucking episode where everyone just decided they wanted to live like 1800s scotland, but they were safe and happy there for a long time and there’s no reason they couldn’t have had a more futuristic way of life. Their weather was fully controlled to simulate the highlands.
Jeez I get wanting authenticity, but if I had full control, I’m not sure the weather would be part of what I’d keep authentic from the Highlands haha.
Maybe they figured out how to make timeshares non-predatory?
I imagine that outside of industry and population centers, most other areas would become a natural preserve. That is, unless an Admiral owes you a favor.