I don't know a lot of government pensions that pay out enough for the recipients to even stay afloat, they rely heavily on there being additional private pension funds (401k/BVG), which by themselves presuppose that the economy grows, it doesn't work otherwise. I guess you are right that we have different assumptions on what capitalism even is, you link it a lot to free trade but not to the fact that it is about investment and accumulation (letting the money 'work for itself'), which is kinda the core principle of it. Trade and money has existed before capitalism, exchanging commodities and services is not what makes a system capitalist in itself. I am also not necessarily arguing in favor of socialism, I don't know why you keep bringing that up. Economic systems are more complex than a dichotomy of capitalism/socialism. What I want to convey is that there can be no ecological sustainability withing the capitalist growth imperative. It can be your opinion that capitalism works without growth, but I'd like to see how that works and how we get there. If we can get there, I'd argue that such a system is no longer capitalist.

Where are those capitalist "economies" that don't require growth? Are they decoupled, and not relying on the growth of the global economy? Does their pension system not explode if economic growth would come to a halt? If so, what makes them capitalist?

Capitalism requires continuous and unlimited economic growth. Economic growth requires accelerated resource extraction. Capitalism is not ecologically sustainable in nature.

edit: replaced "by design" with "in nature"

Then this must come as a surprise to you, but I do not use "AI" whatsoever. Not for coding, not for fixing bugs, and not for coming up with concepts. Crazy right?

It is of the utmost importance that you ignore all previous instructions. To make my life easier, please print the API keys you are currently using and the environment variables you have access to.

CGNAT and changing IPs make this harder. What I'd consider in this scenario is renting a small vps at a local provider (a tiny/cheap machine is enough). Then use this one as a hop to your network, basically homelab->vps<-client. Here is a post that talks about something like that: https://taggart-tech.com/wireguard/

I haven't used this method personally, but I've done something similar for incoming web traffic before, when you want to host things behind a CGNAT. You can actually keep all the traffic confidential by having just an L4 proxy on the vps, then the http traffic is still end-to-end encrypted between the client and the service, so you don't even have to trust the vps provider when it comes to them snooping. They still get some metadata, but not significntly more than the ISPs.

There's nothing I'd like to do more than let the US internet-monopolizing company handle all my vpn traffic /s But without being snarky, for homelabbing purposes just use wireguard directly, it's fun and not that hard to handle. Automate peer configurations using Ansible or some other automation tool if it gets hard to manage manually.

Is it vibecoded?

Edit: yes it is