Someone on linked In made the comment that capitalism would never go away. Given that it is a system and all systems made by human beings fail at some point, given that it relies upon relentless growth on a finite planet and given that book-and-bust cycles are inherent to the system, H suggested people would get fed up with it eventually.
However the race into space makes growth potentially endless and what may eventually happen is that capitalism will traverse space with human beings. That will mean piracy and internecine strife across bases will be our future. At that point I stopped smiling.
Capitalism is a non-ethical system we should abandon as soon as we can if we want to avoid future space wars. That this will not happen because human beings are not wise en masse indentures us to a future no different to our past.
#spacex