content: Bruh, it did not work on star trek. Your station in society was based on merit, the better you were at something, the more comfortable your life was, they say, but there was clear evidence of people receiving certain positions based on networking and favors, and it was a extremely illegal to genetically enhance a person's intelligence...even if they were born retarded. They "eliminated poverty" only in the sense that the average federation citizen on earth lived like a minor prince by today's standards; however, compare the wages of an average westerner today to a commoner's average salary anytime before the industrial periods--using a gold standard reference--and you might find the difference to be equidistant. That is, the only real change in socioeconomics between now and star trek in is that they got rid of money, but relative quality of life, opportunity for improvement of said quality of life, and the relative divide of that QoL between the commoners and decision makers are all basically the same. In essence, nothing changed except the improvement of technology. If we can't be happy today with those divides, then all that means is there was massive brainwashing to compel the commoners into complacency to achieve their "Earth is Paradise" attitudes.