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Some of the deeper thoughts of Gene Roddenbery - the Federation economy.
Roddenberry tried to create a genuine universe for his show. He pondered what sort of culture existed in the post -WWIII Earth Federation including their economy. He decided that in a post apocalyptic world neither capitalism nor socialism was practical. The only economic system that made any sense in a world where every resource was terribly valuable was a Real Wealth-based economy.
That is, an economic system in which the administrative apparatus exists to facilitate the best possible distribution and allocation of resources for the greatest common good in the rock-bottom pragmatic sense of the same way a commander on a battle field or a commander of a vessel on a long voyage would do.
An Appollo astronaut going to the moon does not have to buy materials or food - they are provided whatever they need to accomplish the mission - they aren't "cut off" if they run out of something and don't have enough funds in their budget to pay for it. There is no monetary system on a space voyage. If the captain decides that one of the crew needs something to accomplish the mission, they get it. Period.
Likewise, there are in such situations no questions of "fairness" either. No crew member of a voyage to the moon is going to complain that the other crew members are "getting more than their fair share" based on some Ideological Master Plan (like a philosophical manifesto). The mission parameters are clearly defined by the barest fundamental demarcations of necessity and goals - all clearly understood.
There is only one philosophy in such situations - to survive and to the extent possible, flourish with the least amount of waste, conflict, disruption, instability and chaos possible. This by necessity excludes all issue which might tend to bring conflict/distruption such as abstruse, hyper-intellectual abstractions arising from politics/philosophy.
Roddenberry postulated that the post-WWIII world would need a system different from the previous one both to minimise ideological conflict and to maximise efficiency and decided that would be a non-monetary, Real Wealth based system without a vast army of "middlemen" or "administrators" who existed in some detached, remote universe apart from the day-to-day activity of the people affected by their decisions. No banks, only warehouses. No lofty government officials, only humble local commanders and serious-minded military-like generals to coordinate logistics dispassionately.
In a Real Wealth-based economy only things with actual value in the real world, (natural resources, goods, raw materials, skills, education, training, real-world experience, machinery) have value.There is therefore, no way for useless accumulation of "interest" by those who manipulate the monetary system with cleaverness and avarice. All that exists are credits assigned for real wealth and everyone has a basic number of credits assigned at birth sufficient to entitle them to provide their basic biological needs (food, shelter, clothing, housing, security, medical care). There are no brokers, bankers, agents, lawyers to take a chunk of the real wealth of the system based on some monetary standard.
Those whose need for more resources based on their achievements are granted them by the local community. Geniuses who can create breakthroughs in technology receive more resources than janitors who clean toilets or bureaucrats who facilitate distribution of grain.
Roddenberry decided that those who were less useful would merely receive less resources, not be allowed to sink down into desperate poverty and despair. Those who could not or would not perform useful functions would not starve, but would get menial tasks assigned and the minimaum allocation of resources. Deviates who created trouble were either incarcertated humanely in an environment where they were treated as sick, not wicked - unless they proved themselves to be too dangerous. Only the most dangerous deviates were actually given up on and simply incarcerated indefinitely or executed. Most people who couldn't be made to provide useful functions in exchange for their basic needs being provided would be subjected to efforts to rehabilitiate them (cure their emotional illness) and then placed in environments where they would be the least trouble to the system.
Of course, Roddenberry's world has a serious underpopulation problem because most of the population of the Earth was killed off in the wars (first in the Big One, then in internecine conflicts afteward which further decimated an already-reeling planet). Overpopulation did not create a situation where people were not needed for the workforce. There were not too many people and not enough jobs.
What is great about Roddenberry's Real Wealth system is that is is the most efficient meritocracy possible, because it is based on results, not conformity to some abstract idea. It is the realization of the goal of both capitalism (to further prosperity and strength of society through investment of resources and rewarding creativity/accomplishment) and of socialism ( to allocate resources and wealth to those most able to utilise them for the most pragmatic reasons).
One of the reasons that Communism failed to achieve a better world was because it retained the monetary system and all of the parasitic tendencies inherent in such systems (the acumulation of power/resources in the control of an elite administrative/bureaucratic apparatus instead of the local population). Communist Russia was, just like Tsarist Russia a top-down oligarchic economic/administrative system. Roddenberry postulated a ground-up culture, economic system and government instead of a top-down.
Thus, a Real Wealth-based system accomplished the best envoronment for all of the goals of Classical Liberalism (egalitrianism, equitable justice for all, fair taxation, LIMITED GOVERNMENT, ethical governance, elimintion of immorality from social/government systems) because power is no longer able to concentrated in those who controlled a symbolic monetary system.
The functions of the Federation's government were limited to facilitating efficiency at all local levels, cooperation between local entities toward mutally-agreed upon common goals (such as when a scientific team led by scientist Zeffran Cochran create warp drive in "First Contact") and was acting primarily as a facilitating apparatus, not a detached, self-perpetuating Oligarchy.
Other great creative people who have seen the promise of Real Wealth-based economic systems are SF Grand Master Ursula K. LeGuin (a benevolent, infinitely rational/efficient/practical Ecumenical Foundation governs her future worlds) and of course the preminent genius/polymath R. Buckminster Fuller.
One of the most under-apprecieted books of our time is likely Bucky Fuller's magnum opus "Critical Path"*, which in addition to providing a materful overview of how technology and free-market economics have improved the world (especially for those at the lower end of the economic scale) over the centuries, explores in detail how a Real Wealth-based economic system might well prove to be the salvation of the world and allow us at long last to break free of all conflicts of socialsm/capitalism and into at world that is truly beyond politics.
*Critical Path had only one really glaring error that I could find - that of Fuller's belief in carbon driven AGW. The AGW movement was just getting started when Fuller wrote Critical Path and he was, as many other technically bright people, taken in by the charade of so many "scientists" being seduced into allowing their objectivity to be bastardized by politics. Fuller was a fairly innocent-minded person and he could not easily believe that his fellow scientists would sell out to politics by taking positions on things like AGW for purely political purposes. He died shortly after publishing Critical Path, long before the parade of scandals that revealed AGW as the leftist political scam that is clearly and demonstrably is. So I give the kind hearted, ethical Fuller a pass on his error in believing in AGW because he couldn't believe that scientists would ever be so corrupt as to deliberately lie about their research on carbon-driven climate change.
