A scene from Star Trek: First Contact 1996
Jean-Luc Picard Patrick Stewart

[explaining 24th-century economics to 21st-century Lily Sloane.]

The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves, and the rest of humanity. Actually, we're rather like yourself and Dr. Cochrane.

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