I recommend David Graeber's book "Debt: The First 5000 Years" for a great historical overview of money, its historical developments and cashless and credit societies around the world throughout history. The examples Graeber provides go into a lot more depth than the Star Trek shows do about the Federation economy (tho prolly not the books!). The Federation is vaguely post-capitalism but in using the Borg as a stand-in for the USSR it's clearly not any kind of collectivist society and retains some kind of private property (think of Picard's vineyard and chateau for example) so is less post-capitalist than it purports to be. Graeber's book is far more concrete lol and is incredibly interesting. The business papers like the Economist and Financial Times all gave it stellar reviews
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