Jolteon

I mean, it’s effectively the same thing as just going to sleep and waking up in the web.

Hey, that’s a perfectly logical solution. Airplanes fly. Turning your phone into airplane mode obviously makes it behave like an airplane. Therefore, a phone in airplane mode can fly.

Again, none of that has anything to do with what post-scarcity actually means. It doesn’t matter if we are misusing resources. What matters is that even if we did use those resources for food and housing, the food and housing would still require a significant amount of human labor to produce.

As for your completely unrelated idea of making specific changes to the entirety of humanity, then discarding the ability to do so after making the ones you want, that seems incredibly short-sighted. While it could theoretically be used to make pointless cosmetic changes as you said, it could also be used to make countless objective improvements to the human body. It’s basically like saying we should throw away any ability to shape metal because it can be used to make weapons.

Edit: Also, being trans is absolutely something that could be fixed just by giving them the right sex from birth, sparing them a lifetime of dysphoria.

Post-scarcity refers to most goods being able to be produced in abundance with minimal human labor. Even assuming that current food production fully falls under that umbrella, housing definitely does not, and it requires a lot more than just food and housing.

The day we can mass produce gold is the day we have a post-scarcity society. Full elemental transmutation, which would be required to mass produce gold, would also eliminate virtually all resource shortages.