User blog comment:Yuy168/Why Post-Scarcity Doesn't Work/@comment-4844180-20140131234206/@comment-4799917-20140202220723

Fighting over ideals will make the opposing ideal have less resources - either by taking land from them or making them have your ideals. Same with punishments, in the end it's to gain resources or to limit your enemies'.

I'm not confusing those two terms. I explicitly said that a post-scarcity society must be peaceful because war is always based upon limiting or gaining resources, which would be lost in post-scarcity.

Ambition, n. "A strong desire to do or achieve something..." You have to desire something in order to want to achieve goals. Ambition is based upon greed and desire, even if it's not necessarily for money or power - it can be reputation or other things.

I think you're misinterpreting my explanation as well. I gave building cities as an example. Putting it simply without any deterrants, if the state limits a limitless resource, people will become unhappy because they're missing out on something.