I look forward to the day when people stop talking about the impossible absolute elimination of scarcity. It is the same as the impossibility to exceed the speed of light, the faster you go, the more energy you need to accelerate. That is, it is what is in called mathematics, a Limit. Eliminating scarcity is the same. The closer you get to achieving it, the greater the cost, and at a certain point, the cost naturally outweighs the rewards.
This is why Communism and the modern coporatist/fascist government systems and their attached central banks are such a failure.
Absolutes are theory. They can never be real.
Even if we can have enough energy available and technology that feeds everyone, then what? People aren't going to be content to just eat and sit around all day. They will do things. These things will create more new resources, that will again be scarce. And so on it goes, forever, Amen.
Capitalism, of which Steem is a living breathing example of its highest form of expression, almost completely decentralised and user driven, is exactly the means by which humans work towards the reduction of scarcity. You can't make scarcity go away by wishing it away, or denying it exists.
You can only make it reduce, by making the way resources are allocated more efficient, and this is precisely what an Entrepreneur does.
Steem is a tool for entrepreneurs.
This is what makes it so great.
Whether they are writers, artists, videographers, computer programmers, hardware designers, architects, builders, plumbers, accountants, lawyers, taxi drivers, whatever. Everyone is an entrepreneur, when they invest their time, energy and assets into something, in the hope that someone will pay them more than what it cost them to produce. Without profit, there is no incentive, and indeed profit is the metric that tells you that your entrepreneurship is successful. It doesn't matter whether you dig holes for foundations of buildings, or direct the activities of a large corporation.
Ultimately, in the long run, whether you correctly guess that you can be paid more than you spend, determines whether you are helping in the process of eliminating scarcity. Profit is precisely abundance, and is rightfully paid to the one who takes the risk.
Profit is the evidence of successful reduction of scarcity.
Confusing this selfish incentive with the avarice and violence of criminals who want to trick, rob or murder other people to gain other people's resources, is a misunderstanding of the very important difference between Entrepreneurship and Criminality. Sure, there are some who have built their personal wealth on the losses of others, and they should be held to account, and made to pay back what they took. But it is ignorant and ultimately damaging to society to look upon some genuine entrepreneurs as thieves and others, when in fact they are both producing a net benefit by reducing scarcity.