Now, his wife is working two jobs so they can keep the house they recently bought. Many manufacturing workers losing good-paying jobs lack the skills to get new ones that pay anything. So long as we turn our backs on the poorest among us, we set the stage for all of us to slide into the same hole. They could also try to expand the market by selling more to the rest of the world, but globalization means that the world market has expanded as much as it can. Finally, the capitalists could start a war.
War expands the market.
Yet they cannot really succeed in conquering a country like China. Nevertheless, the danger of a major war will become more and more real as time goes on, since there is a built-in drive toward war under capitalism. There is no safe or effective way out of this crisis under capitalism. Things may get temporarily better for some of us at some point, but the general direction from here is down. For things to really improve, we, the people, are going to have to take control of our lives and get control of our society.