[lippel82]

Real Estate! That'll be the only valuable thing in such an economy.

[monkeybutton]

That's something that always bugged me. Why does Picard get to have an entire, private vineyard to himself?

[CalRobert]

Primogeniture, apparently. Great thread athttps://mobile.twitter.com/sarahtaber_bww/status/12002306275...

[elihu]

They might have some sort of immigration quotas for the Earth, and if the population is approximately what it is now, then there's going to be a lot of open space, farmland, and wilderness still. That's assuming you have cities with a lot of people packed close together, and rural areas with sparse population. That seems much better than the alternative of turning the entire land-surface of the Earth into a uniform-density suburb.

[layer8]

Maybe when beaming down to earth they really beam down into a holodeck (or the Matrix).

[swalsh]

There's plentiful space all over the universe if you're a multiplanetary species.

[kamarg]

There's a pretty big difference between being able to colonize the universe and being able to colonize planets near to you. As an example, the Federation wasn't even able to map out a single galaxy nevermind colonize it.

[White_Wolf]

we'll all have a pocket universe to design as we wish :D