In a post scarcity world why would most people need to? The whole point is that technology is about to make it possible to satisfy everyone's needs with minimum

In a post scarcity world why would most people need to? The whole point is that technology is about to make it possible to satisfy everyone's needs with minimum human energy and instead of reveling in it, we seem to be planning to de facto kill all the extra people we used to need with poverty. If 3/4 of everyone wants to watch TV and take fun drugs and our society has the wealth to allow that to happen, hooray!