Well, that's the question facing us, in the large: Do we create artificial scarcity to keep our bullshit going? Or do we, as a species, learn to relax and stop effing with each other?

We had to hit each other with sharp bits of metal for a long time. We don't have to do that anymore. Do we notice or not?

Bucky Fuller pointed out that, in terms of our technical ability, post-scarcity arrived in the seventies. We can call it with the invention of the microprocessor. (We don't need to postulate fusion, as there is already a serviceable fusion reactor available nearby: it's that thing in the sky that burns your eyes when you look at it.)

Let me repeat that because it bears emphasis: We are already in a post-scarcity condition.

Put another way, all our problems now are psychological. Which is kind of what you were saying, or not?