Alsephina
Our world is already post scarcity too for basic needs like food and housing. We’re just terrible at actually getting them to people since most countries are still capitalist, so they prioritize capital/profit over human lives and rely on what’s basically slave labour from less developed nations to make the ruling class richer.
That’s just one definition, no? You could interpret this part of the wiki like I did for example
Post-scarcity does not mean that scarcity has been eliminated for all goods and services but that all people can easily have their basic survival needs met
and conclude that we’re already in that world, like Star Trek is.
Like I said, just different ways of interpreting the definitions.
The wiki definition “people can easily have their basic survival needs met” is passive, which could mean either
- your definition of the people themselves being able to “go get those basic needs fulfilled”, or just
- the world having more than enough resources and the technology to easily meet everyone’s basic needs.
The latter is how I interpreted it. And that’s our world, just hindered by our current political/economic system of capitalism.
We gotta pump these numbers up
