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27 points

Thought the first rule was “Greed is eternal”?

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27 points

In a post scarcity society, greed becomes irrelevant.

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49 points

This man doesn’t have the lobes for business.

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17 points

If you can’t create artificial demand in a utopian society, what kind of Ferangi are you?

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12 points

Post-scarcity societies are good for business. Rule of Acquisition #74.

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Rule #74 is Knowledge equals profit. Are you reading some pirated copy of the rules?

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Define “post-scarcity”. You can’t replicate everything (without programmable matter, anyways…), and some raw materials are needed to build the replicators. And latinum is a rare commodity, though I don’t know why it’s so value beyond its scarcity. Greed will always be there as long as some things remain scarce yet required for a functioning society.

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Latinum is only valuable outside of the Federation, where societies are not post-scarcity.

Now, before you argue that there are no material conditions demanding scarcity in (some of) them, I’ll add that artificial scarcity is scarcity nonetheless.

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5 points

Latinum is valuable because it can’t be replicated.

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0 points

Irrelevant, but it still exists.

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3 points

When everyone has unlimited access to stuff, one person wanting more does not deprive others of anything so it does not matter if it exists.

IE: In a post scarcity society, greed becomes irrelevant.

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17 points

Rule of Acquisition #1:
Once you have their money, you never give it back.

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10 points

That’s it back in the wormhole with you

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Come on’n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don’t break the weather control network.

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