Picard claims that humanity no longer cares about possessions, yet Sisko's baseball, Picard's keepsakes, and other mementos show that abundance does not erase attachment. Replicators can remove hunger, and holodecks may redirect some urges, but neither technology eliminates greed or the desire to remember people and experiences through objects. The distinction is between freedom from material scarcity and a wholesale transformation of human motives. That gap supports the later naval argument: Federation institutions may offer an idealized account of themselves while familiar incentives persist.
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Post-scarcity technology does not erase human motives
Sisko's baseball and Picard's keepsakes test the claim that replicated abundance has freed humanity from possessions and familiar motives.