If I may, I believe you might be referring to Late Stage Capitalism from its current state. Capitalism done right would have paved the way for self sustaining system of renewable resource use that would gear us as a spesies to the space faring age.... unfortunately certain aspects like education and social engineering these days in the current capitalistic system has degreased us as a spesies to where we are now and thus putting the ambiguity in whether we would even reach it a possibility...