The Ferengi have access to replicators and holodecks. The necessities

to prevent society falling apart people are raised to resist the temptation to spend all their time in the holodeck and other distractions and vices that technology allows

different cultures developed different ways to do this

>>82356532

So they toil away so that they can pay for things that they would otherwise get for free?

Land.

>My cousin Gaila has his own moon

This was not deserving of its own thread, keep it in >>82345927

>>82356881

What do they need land for?

>>82356391
Replicators require raw materials, replicators and holodecks both require energy.

>>82356722
>>82356938
They accumulate things in order to gain social status. They have no particular need for either money or the stuff it buys, since most stuff in Trek can be replicated or simulated anyway, but having more stuff allows them to climb their society's hierarchy.

>>82356881
>wants us to go to a Troi thread
This is why we need them to add a /trek/ board. Trek threads generate more memes, discussion, activity and interest than any other intellectual property on /tv/.

Who fucking knows all they need is starlight and everyone in that quadrant could live like kings for centuries.

>>82356391
Good question. The Puppeteers in the Ringworld universe are also traders of a sort, at least the insane adventurous ones are. Meanwhile, many trillions live on their homeworld, most in an interior apartment that's basically a holodeck, with a teleporter to leave once in a while if they want.

>>82356391
Replicators, or atleast the pristine utopian efficient one's, are Federation exclusive and protected technology

plus the fucking Ferengi don't want to go anywhere near it, the whole concept of it would mean their society would be undone so they don't even try to procure it, the risk of transforming into socialists is to great for them, even despite to potential profit gains