A thread by Twitter user @StorySlug:
Interestingly, the Season 3 finale of "The Orville" took direct aim at the idea that Star Trek's utopian future is only possible because of the replicator, and the typically-conservative Trek fans who make the argument.

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A woman from an underdeveloped planet keeps begging for replicator technology on the grounds that it would bring her planet into the same socialist utopia that the crew of the Orville enjoys, and the first officer says "You've basically got that backwards.”

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She explains that it was their socialist utopia that brought about the cooperation necessary to invent the replicator, and that had it been invented during Earth's 20th or 21st centuries it wouldn't have worked, because the rich and powerful would have hoarded the technology.
As @BoomerNiner often says, we have enough resources on the planet right now, without a replicator, to give everybody food and housing - if we wanted to.The invention of a replicator wouldn't change that.

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Zefram Cochrane, famously, tried to invent the warp drive with a profit motive - he thought he was going to get rich off the technology, and it was only the realization that we weren't alone in the galaxy (and perhaps a few lectures from people from the future) that changed him.

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People don't suddenly become moved to share because of abundance - Elon
Musk had 44 billion dollars and he didn't decide to share it with the world, he decided to buy Twitter with it. He has always, and will continue to, hoard his wealth for himself no matter how much he has.

@Nimthiriel musk could have used that money to save Earth