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RE: Bitcoin! What It Really Is, The Beginning Of The End!
But in Star Trek with replicators and holodecks, there was no use for money. Only less advanced races were using a trade system. What will you need to use money for when advancements have made energy and labour free? I think people will trade ideas and creations perhaps.
Members of the Federation still traded with the "less advanced races" (that's racist, trigger warning) like the Ferengi (spelling?, trigger warning). Don't you remember the roll-up keyboard that Picard marveled over - and paid for? And Vash (spelling?, no trigger warning - minor character) who sold artifacts that she pilfered from "less advanced races." My point is that even now people still accumulate wealth for things that are not necessary - and someone will always build a better mousetrap.
I think those things were only included in order to create themes and drama that the viewers needed. I don't recall the episodes you are talking about, although I enjoyed the show I never did see them all and haven't watched it in ages.
The point is that the creators and writers of that show, although perhaps they saw that such a system without money could work, did not fully understand how. Also being from the current system and trying to come up with new and unique story lines, obviously they had to fall back on some themes that the general public could relate to.