>He never delves into the ordinary lives of citizens of the Culture because doing so would reveal the impossiblity of a "post-scarcity" society populated by human beings who are only capable of being happy if they have "more" than their neighbours.
Firstly, as below, [citation needed]. Secondly, for God's sakes, the Culture is not merely post-scarcity, it is actually post-human. If they spot a moral flaw in their own nature that makes a happy, fulfilled society impossible, they can engineer it away with ease. They may have done so, in the youth of their species, when they were as stupid and naive as evolution could make them.
Firstly, as below, [citation needed]. Secondly, for God's sakes, the Culture is not merely post-scarcity, it is actually post-human. If they spot a moral flaw in their own nature that makes a happy, fulfilled society impossible, they can engineer it away with ease. They may have done so, in the youth of their species, when they were as stupid and naive as evolution could make them.