[sufficer]

No no no. Need to keep producing! Capitalism baby!

[dmichulke]

You mean consumerism, I don't think anyone would produce if it wouldn't be bought.

[PaulHoule]

China is practicing a very different form of "capitalism" where huge amounts of capital are invested into maglev and such. (Something you can't do here because people have property rights and getting the right of way is almost impossible.)

[pixl97]

I mean, if we don't I have a feeling that a large chunk of us on HN would be unemployed very quickly.

An interesting Catch-22 situation most of us find ourselves in.