Seeking the Post Capitalistic Light

FOR A LONG TIME, two decades at least, Japan has been in an economic funk, without any growth, try as they might. Now, they are trying stimulus packages from their pro business government, easing regulations, and corporate tax incentives. anything to get ye olde corporate capitalistic machine going again. We may soon have to come to our senses, and realize that this Japanese stagnation is not some aberration, but rather, the new normal. For, Capitalism, particularly big time corporate capitalism, growth is the engine of health. there will come a time, the sooner the better, when growth, hence capitalism, is no longer necessary - when we have ten billion billionaires, what else will we need? An economy designed to maintain the status quo, in terms of gross global product, because we simply have enough, for everybody. Its possible, probable, highly likely that such a time will l come, along with free energy, food, and shelter. the object then will be to keep people happily employed, for the purpose of happiness, rather than survival. Its either that, or the old endless routine cycle of prosperity, destruction, and rebuilding. The Japanese population, the world population, is aging, and the birth rate in many nations is declining. The answer to all our problems may be eternal expansion into space. That, plus a solid plan of population and age management. For now, let us proceed with construction of a solar power satellite, a flat black screen in space a mere five miles in diameter. A few billion more trees would help, while the fossil fuel corporations steadily, painlessly lead us away from fossil fuels, and towards the light, trading one kind of wealth for another.