Of course, it’s science fiction, not reality. We’ve seen how communism works in the real world, so I’m fairly skeptical of the Star Trek future. 350 years doesn’t seem like enough time to fix all the things wrong with our society.
Of course, it’s science fiction, not reality. We’ve seen how communism works in the real world, so I’m fairly skeptical of the Star Trek future. 350 years doesn’t seem like enough time to fix all the things wrong with our society.
The mansion overlooking the ocean is a real physical limit. There's only so much space, so many oceans or lakes or whatever someone wants available. Today certain billionaires by themselves (artifical) islands, their own beaches, etc etc.
In a world with utopian egalitarianism who gets the Miami beach villa and who gets the Flint, Michigan apartment?
tl;dr2: There are many M class planets with many coast lines and Earth is not seen as a place to retire because it's too loud. You probably can't see stars at night anywhere on earth.
tl;dr3: for a market economy to work most people should be in that market. In star trek billions of people (including some of the most stylish and sexy) live outside that market economy.
tl;dr4: traveling the stars >>>>> moldy beach villa you can't remodel because it's a landmark. There will be no city beach that's not covered in public housing. Any villa, including Piccard's villa will be a historical landmark.
Answer: It's fun pretend. ex: Me earthling, I love art but Picassos cost trillions. I join starfleet and save a space princes. She gifts me a 20k year old cubist like painting. I display it in my eight room starfleet issued apartment on the 50th floor of a building in New Santa Monica. Art nerds from all over the sector come visit me. I have social status now and can get into clubs.
We aren't all greedy bastards. Don't you think that at some point, the people living in a utopian, egalitarian world would be content? I was raised to share and share alike. Don't you think that folks in a utopian, egalitarian world would want to share the nice things they have? I mean, it's right there in the description, "egalitarian". What's stopping people from just moving into the empty rooms of some greedy bastard's Miami beach villa? They can only grab and hold onto so much at once. What's the point in celebrating a birthday if not to share the cake? A person can only eat so much cake by themselves.
Guns?
I dunno. What's that then? The law of the jungle? People just grab what they can and prevent others from having it?
How about we, as a species, _not_ do that and instead share and share alike? No point in some awesome beach view or whatever without anyone else to share it.