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 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.
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 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.
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.