Status Updates From The Economics of Star Trek:...

'As I’ve said, I’m a huge fan of the mid-20th-century French intellectual Georges Bataille. I like to find an excuse to work him into all of my works. I did not, sadly, pull this off in my book Man Nup: A Groom’s Guide to Heroic Wedding Planning. That would have been weird.'

'Then there’s the matter of Quark’s bar. What’s up with that? He never seems to charge anyone for drinks, yet is obsessed with money.'

'The big challenge here is how does society get someone to do the menial jobs that cannot be done in an automated manner.'

'In a world of robots and AIs making things very cheaply, where will all the people in the Global South go to in search of employment and the good life?'