^^ continued, 3/?
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.
@Nimthiriel musk could have used that money to save Earth
@Nimthiriel most rich people think all poor people are lazy ... Thats being too shallow
@Jellifish Iβd say itβs projection. I doubt any of them actually work all that hard.