Thats not post-scarcity, just high productivity relative to the past. Which is something people could point to as being true relative to the (comparative) past at many points in history (conservatively, pretty much most  since he agricultural revolutions of the middle ages in the West.)<p>Because misery is empirically shown to be driven largely by relative, not absolute, deprivation -- both compared to one&#x27;s own past and one&#x27;s visible surroundings -- greater productively doesn&#x27;t even approximate post-scarcity (indeed when it was involves greater or more visible inequality, it makes the impact of scarcity more palpable.)