2/ At least Iain Banks explained that the only way you get a post scarcity culture is to create a magical overseer class that holds all the power, makes all the decisions, and prevents any human disagreements from resulting in hurt feelings, inequality, slavery, or genocide.
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3/ Banks knew humans well enough to realize that human nature would never allow utopia, so he created benevolent gods to force a utopia on us.
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5/ yeah, positional goods are my biggest complaint re "post scarcity". "Oh, you think that Star Trek is a post-scarcity society? So ... how does one get to captain a star ship?" Social status is finite and scarce.
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*tries to pay in Federation credits* *bartender points to sign by register* "This establishment only accepts gold-pressed latinum or bitcoin."
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Any societies that existed would be purely voluntary and ad hoc, though potentially long-term if they could generate their own raison d'être that generated social cohesion. Just because you don't require one another doesn't mean that you don't prefer one another.
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