Humanity in Flux: Would a Species That Recognizes Its Own Worth Be Actively Destroying Itself?

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11. This is kind of off topic, but the article and comments made me think of this

I have a vision of the future in my head where everyone has everything and just about anything that they want as a result of technology. When people have everything, they seldom want anything.

I'm thinking of something kind of Star Trek-ish. When CPT Jean Luc Picard goes to see his family and his home on earth, they are living an agrarian life style where they work the land with their hands because the labor is fulfilling to them, not because they have to. They wear simple clothes, work with simple hand tools, and work like people did hundreds of years ago. They do labor because they want to and it is fulfilling to them, not because they have to.