Better system? Ummm,well, depends what's of value to a fella. There are examples. People in Cuba have lower infant mortality and live longer that 'murkinz, so.... "That won't last" you say? Maybe not, but exponential growth in a closed finite system is an oxymoron, and it can't last. And the past is often prologue - so Cuba, whether it lasts or not, may well presage the period after the coming difficulties. Consider it an echo from the future. What's obvious is that humanity is heading fast into a train-wreck. Nothing much to be done about it 'cept to enjoy the show by living through it. If one puts matters into their true form and looks hard then it is visibly logical that corporate and junta-based criminal gangs ought to steal whatever they can as fast as they can, while the stealing is good, so to speak. The Bushcheney junta trying desperately to prop up a moribund system, however briefly, is also logical - it prolongs the period of opportunity for them. However, one does tend to speculate on what value money, which is apparently their "god", will do 'em after the wreck.
Phaedrus