[pmontra]

By the way, there is always some form of scarcity even in a Star Trek world that can create stuff out of thin air. Do you want a house on that very scenic spot of the coast? There are only a handful of them. Hope that only two or three families like the place.

[robertlagrant]

Quite. Maybe the Star Trek utopia is everyone gets their own Holodeck, and then no one can ever do anything better than you?

[sschueller]

But someone still has the real house at the exclusive beach on that planet. "It's just not the same!" /s

[robertlagrant]

Presumably everyone in the Holodeck will be simulating everyone else as being slightly worse off than them.