"Economic" concerns in the Federation
This one might be the longest yet.
Pattern replication technology: Food, clothing, materials, equipment, toys, instruments... pretty much anything can be replicated. You need matter to make matter still though, so recycling is 100%, there's no garbage dumps, everything can be dematerialized into it's most basic particles and reassembled into pretty much whatever you want. There are restrictions on the technology, you can't produce poisons or weapons in your in home replicator unit.
This technology would have a negative impact on the farming community, as more and more people get their food from replicators, they become less dependent on farmed goods. By extension it would impact grocery stores, restaurants, and other businesses. There would also be an impact on manufacturing companies, they would be downsized to the people designing products and probably assembling prototypes, but otherwise the majority would be using replication technology.
Of course there would be niche markets... like for people that want organic food and hand made products, and those niche markets would be staffed by people who genuinely take an interest in that product... such as Sisko's Creole Kitchen run by Joseph Sisko who managed the restaurant because he loved to cook and loved people, and winemakers like the Picard family, I find it likely that Jean-Luc Picard or Marie Picard or both would have been given ownership of his families properties after the deaths of his brother and nephew.
And because people in this moneyless society did things to better themselves and do good for others, pretty much doing stuff to be happy... there would be cooks, farmers, etc... just not any in it for the money.
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