[dcc1]

When you have technologies like replication and warp drives and your federation is off colonising multiple planets in an area 8000 light years wide your civilisation is not worried about limited resources

interestingly enough in star trek they still have constraints on things like dilithium, and of course wars are waged over territories

[davidw]

You're always going to have things that are scarce. They might not be the things that are scarce today, but not everyone can have everything.

[VladRussian2]

>You're always going to have things that are scarce. They might not be the things that are scarce today, but not everyone can have everything.

you forgot the Continuum - they have no scarcity at all, so no economics (yet, surprise!, they still have politics)

[chadwickthebold]

but no constraints on ham sandwiches