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Valid point, the Star Trek universe is not without its dark history and calamitous events, still the Federation, for all its flaws, its evil admiral problem, and Section 31, even shortly after the atomic crisis, it's still a society that has solved poverty and homelessness on their own planets and eliminated most medical annoyances, like the common cold and headaches.
And even the Ferengi the cartoonish caricatures of unrestricted capitalism are quaint compared to the horrors that capitalism of the real world present day.