Capitalism, Sustainability, and the Possibility of Global Collapse

Publius,

That is what this thread is about - figuring out what to replace it with. How will enlightened economics operate? How do eliminate inequality in a system that both requires and seeks to reproduce it? Is economic inequality really bad? Is a more tribalistic, exchange/gift based system a possibility?

The one thing I find interesting from a historic perspective, is that no form of economic production, exchange, commerce, or consumption has ever survived without warfare.

That brings me to another thought - possibly unrelated to economics, but I tend to think all violence has its roots in economics at some level. Many of the Camelot witnesses argue that there are many races of extraterrestrials, and we have been been visited/exploited, and they tell of conflict in our galaxy. Even the enlightened, technologically advanced races know war. Why? Over resources? Over the soul-beings that we have become? Has our world become our galaxy's Iraq? Souls or oil - its all the same. If intergalactic, time traveling enlightened ones have not yet shed war, why is it concievable that we will do the same because of a change in vibration, etc.?

Your thoughts?