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Dear Lemmy, why Star Trek??
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Just gonna point out that by definition, a world that is post-scarcity is post-scarcity for all of its inhabitants. Your assertion that there are "less developed" nations that "don't get basic resources" means we are not post-scarcity.
That's just one definition, no? You could interpret this part of the wiki like I did for example
and conclude that we're already in that world, like Star Trek is.
It can mean that if you cherry-pick your clauses, but if you actually take the entire text into account, you are absolutely wrong. Tell me what "basic needs" are met cheaply or freely to the general population of the planet? And I mean all of us. From the children in Beverly Hills to the grandparents in Mozambique. Food, shelter, water. At a bare minimum, those three are available cheaply to everyone on the planet on a post-scarcity planet. We absolutely do not live on one of those at this point.
They could have easily have those ends met, but at the moment, they can't easily go get those basic needs fulfilled.
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
The latter is how I interpreted it. And that's our world, just hindered by our current political/economic system of capitalism.