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Star Trek canon is that humans suddenly acted completely differently than they had throughout their entire history. I don't think that's gonna happen.
The book "Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow makes a strong case that our current way of structuring society and exploiting eachother is actually an aberration from the norm based on archeological evidence, where it appears we were far more egalitarian and collective.
Here's a summary from Wengrow himself in video form: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJi0sHrEI4
So the Star Trek future may in fact be a return to our previous state.
I don't know in fairness an actual all-out nuclear war would probably do it. Mostly people are alright, the problem is governments and corporations which presumably wouldn't survive a nuclear war.
I think it's reasonable that post-scarcity can be self-reinforcing