The idea that having more than enough resources to go around means a world where poverty is eliminated is instantly falsifiable by the world we live in.
In the world we live in, there is strong political and cultural resistance to the kinds of basic income schemes that would eliminate genuine poverty. The problem isn’t that resource consumption would always need to inevitably increase—once people’s wealth gets past a certain point, plenty of them prefer to reduce their working hours, forgoing material resources in favor of having more spare time. The problem is that large numbers of people don’t like the idea of others being given tax money without doing anything to directly earn it.
In the world we live in, there is strong political and cultural resistance to the kinds of basic income schemes that would eliminate genuine poverty. The problem isn’t that resource consumption would always need to inevitably increase—once people’s wealth gets past a certain point, plenty of them prefer to reduce their working hours, forgoing material resources in favor of having more spare time. The problem is that large numbers of people don’t like the idea of others being given tax money without doing anything to directly earn it.