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    $\begingroup$ "Also, can everyone have as big of a house as they want?" I guess this is one of the premises of the question, so yes. Post-scarcity must mean something like big-enough houses for most, otherwise there would be a scarcity (of big houses). - "...a show of wealth would be to have human maids/butlers" The question would be if anyone would be willing to do such work in a post-scarcity society. I wouldn't. $\endgroup$
    – NoDataDumpNoContribution
    Commented Mar 9, 2017 at 12:16
  • $\begingroup$ The thing about post scarcity is: the Earth doesn't get any bigger. Can you build UP? Sure. anyone can have as much space as they want in a sky rise. Those who can afford it will have a house in the woods. There will be a limited number of those. Post scarcity means that needs are taken care of, not wants. There will always be people who never have enough or who want what their neighbor has (not a copy of it). $\endgroup$
    – ShadoCat
    Commented Mar 9, 2017 at 18:37
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    $\begingroup$ @Trilarion: Big enough does not mean as big as you want. I want a house 50 miles long and 2 miles wide and land that is half the size of the continental United States as my back yard. If others can have that too then I want a house inside a hollowed out planet with me owning that planet and twenty seven galaxies as my back yard. If others can have that too then I want half the universe, let the other 99.999% live in the other half of the universe. $\endgroup$
    – slebetman
    Commented Mar 10, 2017 at 8:46
  • $\begingroup$ @slebetman And how exactly do you feel oppressed if you cannot have that? Not only are your examples quite absurd, I think, they also don't tell much about human nature. $\endgroup$
    – NoDataDumpNoContribution
    Commented Mar 10, 2017 at 10:49
  • $\begingroup$ "The thing about post scarcity is: the Earth doesn't get any bigger" Then we are not really in post-scarcity yet and probably won't be for a long time (until we can colonize more planets or reduce population) or your definition of post-scarcity is radically different from mine. I would see an overcrowded planet as very much scarcity constrained (of inhabitable space). $\endgroup$
    – NoDataDumpNoContribution
    Commented Mar 10, 2017 at 10:51