# Gene Roddenberry=Communist?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-roddenberry-communist/90880>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 1, 2001, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-roddenberry-communist/90880 "2001-11-01T07:56:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gene-roddenberry-communist/90880/61 "2010-08-08T07:23:32Z")

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I see the ST future as being similar to virtual online spaces - things like land are still the subject of commerce because they are somewhat limited, and perhaps one of a kind items or those things which people who feel there is some value in ‘real origin’, but generally physical objects are subject only to the laws of creativity - you can easily have whatever you can build on your own or draw from a database, but anything more interesting than that you have to barter for the intellectual labor involved.

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