I think you are right that “humans that want things” will always have more things than “humans that don’t want things” (or even replace human with X, see this talk by Joe Carlsmith). You must be much more explicit drawing a line between this and “post-scarcity”—which frame of post-scarcity is it that you are disagreeing with here? You seem half to be making an argument about the inherent nature of competition, and half an argument about the desire of humans for status, which leads to an argument about neither.
I think you are right that “humans that want things” will always have more things than “humans that don’t want things” (or even replace human with X, see this talk by Joe Carlsmith). You must be much more explicit drawing a line between this and “post-scarcity”—which frame of post-scarcity is it that you are disagreeing with here? You seem half to be making an argument about the inherent nature of competition, and half an argument about the desire of humans for status, which leads to an argument about neither.