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I don't think that's an "if" at all. I firmly believe that that's exactly it.
The same behaviours that we needed to evolve are harmful now that we've reached a potential "post-scarcity" stage.
To put it more bluntly, the drive to compete for resources in order to survive is what made us the dominant species. Now that post-scarcity is essentially upon us, our nature is to create artificial scarcity in order to satiate that drive for competition. And it will be the ultimate end of us.
These are pretty much the thoughts I had.