Yeah you kind of have to assume that, in the depicted post-scarcity society, any “job” you see people doing is something they want to do. Like, Picard owns the vineyard or whatever but all those people in the fields might be people who like making wine and so Jean-Luc opens the land for them to do this.
Sisko’s dad has a restaurant in a society with replicators. Clearly this exists because he likes making food for groups of people.
Yeah you kind of have to assume that, in the depicted post-scarcity society, any “job” you see people doing is something they want to do. Like, Picard owns the vineyard or whatever but all those people in the fields might be people who like making wine and so Jean-Luc opens the land for them to do this.
Sisko’s dad has a restaurant in a society with replicators. Clearly this exists because he likes making food for groups of people.
In a world with replicators, bespoke real cooked food is probably considered an extremely fun and rewarding hobby.
Replicators are copied of a given prepared meal. Actually cooking adds variety (good or bad depending on the cook, I suppose).
And if you make a dish better than the replicator can, you can scan it and upgrade the replicator for everyone!
I want to add Gramma’s orange slice cookies to the list of stuff ppl can replicate, that’d be amazing 💜
https://xkcd.com/927/