Earth is post-scarcity, but it’s not very clear how much this applies to the whole of the Federation. We’ve definitely seen Federation colonies deal with famine and even societal collapse (in Kirk and Yar’s backstory and elsewhere).
But regardless of all that, DS9 isn’t a Federation station, it’s just managed by Starfleet officers on behalf of the Bajorans.
Earth is post-scarcity, but it’s not very clear how much this applies to the whole of the Federation. We’ve definitely seen Federation colonies deal with famine and even societal collapse (in Kirk and Yar’s backstory and elsewhere).
But regardless of all that, DS9 isn’t a Federation station, it’s just managed by Starfleet officers on behalf of the Bajorans.
Yar wasn’t from a Federation planet AFAIK
I wasn’t talking about odo specifically