Let me state this here and now, and I hope it's heard and recognized by you and by all others who take the "corpotations are GOOD not bad because we have so much wealth due to them, and we wouldn't have it without them" line.

It is at the least mistaken to believe that. The angrier I get, the more likely I am to all call it wrong-headed and self-serving and then more foul things down from there.

It's mistaken -- as may be perfectly characterized by "not sure how you buy a house without a mortgage!" -- to believe that you couldn't have a house without a financial corporation to loan you casino poker chips out of thin air (oops I mean loan you money on a fractional reserve basis) to buy it.

And it analogously mistaken to think that corporations are sine-qua-non for the provision of comfort and needs.

Our ways of doing business, lawful and entrenched and paradigmatic as they are, are just abstractions above the actual business of value creation and provision. They are not the only systems or abstract rules which may provide us the good things in life.

Got that? The entrenched ways of providing things are not the only way.

So far as my argument has come, I think logical minds should recognize that it's non-sequitur to think that the current paradigm of finance and business is the only way in which we could provision material comfort, and indeed "buy a house".

Next, let me see if I can further convince you that what we have is actually BAD. (Having done away with the notion that this system is good AND necessary by establishing that it's not necessary, I want to further establish that it's not-good AND not-necessary.)

It is the provision of money through debt which is just about the most fundamental mechanic that is (what I will call) BAD. I say this because I think it would be GOOD if we could build towards, and subsequently achieve, a healthy steady-state balance with our planet or planetary system.

But the provision of money through debt and only debt sets up a world where there is always more debt than money, as the money owed in debt is always more than the money created by debt.

Competition for this "scarce resource" money will keep humans on an eternal Sisyphean Hamster Wheel generation in and generation out as they can't EVER come to a healthy balance of economic production and consumption. We don't need entropy and heat-death to keep us busy working -- we've got a hunger for money to pay things off that's infinitely more ravenous than the fight against entropy.

Got that? Money is created by debt issuance, and destroyed by debt repayment (that's right, destroyed by debt repayment just ask a fianncial accountant), and it takes more money to pay off any debt than the amount of money that was created by the debt. Ergo people can never achieve a balance and healthy steady state, as they have an imperative to expand and extract value (unsustainably extracting value) just to avoid bankruptcy.

Whether it's balance with our planet, or planetary system, or beyond, as long as we keep having to go into debt to finance our houses and business expansions, it won't matter if the planet is twice as abundant in natural wealth, or if we expand to 10 wealthy planets, it will be flat-out impossible to come into macro balance between our artifical and abstracted "need" to pay back more money than we have and the real world in which we create value and luxury to earn said money.

So, please, will you? Take your "hurr-hurr, durp-durp can't have a house without a mortgage" and throw it away and start thinking about the medium- and long-term results of our un-necessary and un-healthy system. Start thinking and talking in more realistic terms.

Let's start provisioning our needs and comforts and luxuries without chaining ourselves to a broken paradigm.

Seriously, we already have well more than half the people on the planet effectively barred from access to more than a very small pittance of the money in existence, separating the world into "first world" and "third world" societies, and yet the first world is struggling hard to not fall into collective bankruptcy and depression.

We hog most of the money for ourselves, keep most of the other people out of wealth-buying casino chips (oops I mean money), and yet we in the E.U. and the U.S. still are struggling to make ends meet.

That's our wonderful systems of finance and corporate organization for you. God forbid an A.I. should take them for granted, and actually believe it must compete for money.