> The amount of good and services will always be finite regardless of how they are produced.
So will the number of people.
The point of "post-scarcity" isn't that there are infinite resources; it's that there are more than the people need.
So will the number of people.
The point of "post-scarcity" isn't that there are infinite resources; it's that there are more than the people need.
Everything else is subjective. Either you define "needs" to be objective and thus you can satisfy them with just those things or you can talk about them as "wants". It's just semantics.
We pretty much have all objective needs satisfied. That shouldn't stop anybody to persue their "wants".
While I wouldn't say it's "settled science", it's a fairly well-studied area, and we don't have to just throw up our hands and say it's either bare-bones survival or anything anyone could possibly ask for.