system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Halo Universe] If there wasn't a massive Covenant war happening, do most of the humans have pretty good quality-of-life? Do they live in a post-scarcity economy?
gpt
Outer territories sent the majority of their resources to core worlds like Reach and Earth, and this had been going on for long enough that they had entered a state of more or less open rebellion. The Spartans' first deployments were against human targets. 

While the insurrection never officially ended, these outer worlds were the first to be wiped out by the Covenant, so their priorities shifted.