@Immahnoob @supersid333 @AstolfoCockVore @LoliHat @blueknightfrank the point is, replicators aren't a guaranteed utopia because there's still a lot of shitty jobs that must be done and people will try to outsmart each other to stay on top, and things will devolve to some sort of authoritarian and rigid hierarchy where the "card carrying party members" control everything and the rest of the people are forced to toil for them.
Just think of all the commies you saw saying that they would "do poetry" or "work teaching the tenets to people" or some shit like that, but no one wants to do sewer maintenance.

Now imagine a whole multi-plamet empire composed of people like that.

As for the others who are outside the "utopia", they obviously don't have e access to replicators, or else there would be no such a thing as piracy in the outer rim. The replicators are the sole possession of the Utopia, their big advantage, and they have access to it because they are better than everyone else and they are totally the good guys.