What's crazy is that with a nearby main-sequence star we have a nearly unlimited source of energy. It's a far horizon but the life we live doesn't need money, or any capitalist systems at all. We could all just keep doing what we're doing and let the Sun power the entire process. The economy of working to gather enough fossil fuels and then burning them to move ourselves around the landscape is obviously an antiquated notion, and one that we can finally abandon.
