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There can be. Just not under Milton Friedman/Chicago School capitalism, or the neoliberal globalist shoggoth it spawned.
Whether aforementioned eldritch economics are an inevitable stage or not, the million dollar question (whatta bargain!) is whether that stage constitutes the current system's death-throes. I'd love to know, myself!
I keep waiting for the final shudder but it keeps going on and on?
If you consider that it is a self sustaining organism in its own right, it won't die until a number of its organs have failed. Until then it'll scape on, consuming itself (and us) to satisfy it's immediate need to survive.