Ever wonder how the Star Trek society overcame corporations, human greed and competition? I’m pretty sure it wasn’t because the society evolved to no longer need it. I’m guessing that the first transporters were used to do away with all of the capitalists and staunch individuals who just weren’t “down” with the vision of a one world government.

Then came the conflict with Khan in the Eugenics Wars, then absolute poverty on a planetary scale, the nuclear war, and then First Contact with Vulcan. And the video below from Cracked gets it pretty much right.