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We absolutely have enough to shower every single person in lavishness. Its just not distributed. We arent post resource, but we are post scarcity.
You're confusing wealth with resources. If we evenly distributed wealth everyone would be wealthy but it turns out farmers would still have to farm etc.
We don't have the resources to give everyone on earth a palace. We don't even have the resources on earth to give everyone a western lifestyle sadly.
Infinite resources/energy is waaay past what you're thinking. Think startrek and replicators