I don’t love this conclusion, but looking around it seems that people generally keep competitions after their lives have become post-scarcity because the relate

I don’t love this conclusion, but looking around it seems that people generally keep competitions after their lives have become post-scarcity because the related concepts of status and preferential mating are determined by relative rather than absolute abundance. When a mega-yacht doesn’t stand out in your social/sexual set? Build a fucking rocket ship that we all know damned well isn’t going to colonize Mars.