How Star Trek's Future Works Part 3: Housing and Leisure

How Does Star Trek's Future Work? This is a question writers and fans have been grappling with for decades. Previous videos covered money, work, property, social currency and government. In this video we'll be tackling housing and leisure in a world without money.

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00:00 Intro
01:28 Mutual Organisations
03:11 Architecture and Design as Art
05:53 Sponsor
06:47 Land Use
10:45 Caveats
12:35 Conclusion
13:40 Outro

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[TakaD]

In a world with aliens, starships, replicators, warp speed, phasers, Klingons, shape shifters, sentient machines and so on, the moneyless society is still the most futuristic concept.

[quentinking]

At the end of the day, at the end of a project, a house builder can look out and say "I built that, and someone will always make use of it, and that's pretty cool." And self-satisfaction matters

[snoonan]

Modular construction would be big. Cfi replicators could build housing modules that are plugged into a frame. This would make apartments much easier to build.

[robsquared]

I just had a terrible thought: a future where HOAs run everything. Maybe that's how the mirror universe started.

[DanielSolis]

If you still feel cramped on Earth, there's a passing mention of an Atlantis Project that will create a new continent, presumably where you could live.

[Taj_Rahine]

Not only are the Picards not hurting anyone, but they are actually providing a service by making wine. Seems like that would be valued and appreciated in a future society

[stijnvantongerloo]

I notice that in conversations I had with people, part of them get morally offended at the idea of a system that takes away people's necessity to work. Like, through basic income, or, in the example of this video, a portfolio of goods that covers all their daily needs (bypassing a money system). I've always thought that when you take away people's necessity to work, other human drives kick in that push people to work. E.g., the need to be admired & respected by others; the need for self-development & self-expression; and the need for a meaningful life.

[connormarchand]

Today on Star Trek we’re gonna be talking about the exiting world of home ownership 🤩

[brickotronic]

I never realised how different building houses works in US and where I live until I saw your video.
Here, houses very often are not built by developers. Instead, you buy land and then pay a construction company to put a house onto it.
Of course, there also are investors building homes here, especially apartments. But for houses it's way less common.
In the Star Trek future, it should be very simple to get some land and plan your own house with the computer. You wouldn't even need an architect since the computer would do all the calculations for you. Then, robots and replicators simply would build it.

[JustGrowingUp]

What a tease for the next episode! Well played!

[mgailp]

My grandfather was a master carpenter. When I was a child, every time I had some kind of fund raiser, my first target was a little old lady who would also let me play with her cabinets. He built them to accommodate her wheel chair in a time when that was not often considered. Installing cabinets is manual labor, but his cabinets were artworks. I have no doubt many jobs now considered manual labor would be either skilled artistry or done by robots.

[TheCatherineCC]

That was a damn fine segway to the ad. Bravo

[Its__Good]

This is really all a discussion about being more open minded to what 'work' means. When you spend so much of your life in some dreary 9-5 in can seems like the non-work bits of life are what make it worthwhile. But ultimately I believe that we all need to feel that what we do matters to other people, that we are contributing.

[RemnantCult]

Considering that humanity is suggested to be more evolved, I'd imagine that a whole honor system for society would work well for them in all things, especially for land use. Everyone cooperates to make sure everyone has a life that is fulfilling and rich in experience.

[RapidCityJM]

My best friend and I have marathon discussions about the next stage of economic development is and what AI/automation replacing the workforce means. I've had to show him these videos because he couldn't (and still struggles) with wrapping his head around what a scarcity-less economy looks like. I have to frequently remind my of what Ursula LeGuin said "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings."

[trober]

Nice video.
“Remove the need to be connected to a grid” in an advanced sci-fi world kinda circles back around to “wizards crap on the floor and then vanish the evidence”😅

[bmp]

Wow, didn’t expect to be jumpscared with a photo from my city in a Star Trek video!

[stef_trek]

Great video Rowan. Im really enjoying this series. Im hoping in the next part you might posit why you think Raffi has a trailer instead of a nice house. Also on your tease of the system being broken my mind went to turkana 4 and nimbus 3.

[conrad]

Truly wonderful philosophical exploration video series so far.

[WilliamHensley]

"Fundamentally Broken" what an awesome phrase to close with.🤣 Canon contradicts itself far too often. Canon, such as it is, is the work of hundreds of different writers working with a 'rulebook' that has evolved over time. It's been said that I found all 3 parts of this series to be informative & thought provoking. I have long wondered how flexible Federation membership is with the degree of autonomy that member worlds are allowed to have. Here in the USA, State level laws vary far more than should be allowed to differ from the national consensus. I look forward to the next installment.