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Originally Posted by Varyon
There will probably still be attempts to farm, in addition to hunting and gathering, unless the sort of food that can be conjured is highly satisfying with a lot of options (and even then you may still have people willing to pay handsomely for "real" food, even if only for the purpose of conspicuous consumption).
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That also happens in the post-scarcity utopia of the core worlds of the Federation in
Star Trek - Sisko's Restaurant, for instance, where people are willing to travel (and, presumably, do whatever the equivalent of payment is in that world) to eat "real" food prepared by a living chef. (Someone's headcanon, can't recall whose, explained that as all replicated food tasting exactly the same every time, with no variance whatsoever, while a real chef's food is a different experience with each meal.)