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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] But transporters are a peripheral concern, we were talking about [i]cold-hard cash-money[/i]. What do people here think about the concept of [b]Meritocracies[/b]? Not, like, with regard to rule as the 'cracy' would lead you to believe but in the 'ism' sense of this is how people get things for themselves and their families and how they distinguish themselves as worthier mates, etc. Perhaps because it's in Bernd's sig, but it got me thinking that Barclay's might be a good example to take up. He's Starfleet but he's not living on a starship, he's got a day job. Clearly from VOY he's a sporadically excellent engineer. But his holo-addiction nearly gets him 'fired' from his job. If he lost this job would he also lose his INCREDIBLE split-level apartment in SF with that impossible view (that would in actuality right now go for about $12 Million a month). Would he lose other priveleges? Is Starfleet a meritocracy, not in the sense that people's positions and priveleges are assigned by their IQs, but by their accomplishments and efforts? Is that even a Meritocracy/ism? What's a gift-economy? What's a reputation-economy? What kind of 'ocracy/'ism would the Federation be? Incidentally, my curiosity isn't entirely speculative. I'm developing a series of my own and I'm still researching and puzzling out the way the money works. It's supposed to be all egalitarian and utopian and semi-anarchosocialist, but ugly humanity has twisted it all up (as humanity inevitably will) and so the class barriers and caste-systems still exist. So understanding the Federation would go a ways. Please kindly lend me your insights and help me, oh smarter and better educated ones than me. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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