No, some scarcities are avoidable but not all

GinandTonic says: The key issue is that we do not live in a post scarcity society howevermuch Ian M Banks and Harry Harrison we read or Star Trek we watch. The Zeitgeist film makes many interesting points about the contradictions andinefficiencies of the present system and then makes the leap to how,since we could avoid some scarcities, we should arrange a post scarcitysociety. That some scarcities are avoidable does not mean we have theability to be The Culture.