I personally think that Brave New World isn't wealthy, or technically advanced, enough to be post-scarcity. But it's an interesting tangent. I think a better d

I personally think that Brave New World isn't wealthy, or technically advanced, enough to be post-scarcity. But it's an interesting tangent. I think a better dystopian depiction would be in Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky, where Pham Nuwen (iirc) describes encountering a technologically inferior planet, where surveillance and automation tech were sufficient for a sole dictator to effectively rule over all. Only the superior tech of Nuwen's starship breaks the dictator's hold.