User blog comment:Yuy168/Why Post-Scarcity Doesn't Work/@comment-4844180-20140131234206/@comment-4799917-20140201191911

If a post-scarce society is not peaceful, then it isn't a post-scarce society. People fight over one thing - resources, and that's it. Even the most pious of catholics during the middle ages fought over religion simply to get land. If you fight, you need something, and a post-scarce society has infinite resources.

If there is a government in a post-scarce society, then it will immediately corrupt due to greedy rulers unless if you have a mary sue race that has no desires whatseover. And that would be incredibly boring, and not what this wiki is about.

What yuy meant by the government sentence is that the government would have to use massive amounts of resources to do what it wanted, instead of each individual being able to practically create his or her own city. That would be upsetting.