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It doesn't once say that he hates capitalism. He ties it into something more, as Magical Astronomy is all about a couple college students being excited about the march of progress only to find that tickets to the moon are expensive enough that they consider getting part-time jobs.

The part highlighted is illustrating that they live in a time after Japan's present-day real-world population crisis, something that's expected to happen to other countries as population growth slows in other locales (as it did before modern medicine and has been doing again since the 80s). He doesn't dwell on it, and he even seems optimistic about the post-crisis era.

The "final stage" is clearly meant to just mean that after that, things in that world have stabilized for some indefinite amount of time. There ARE complaints in that very work about there not being enough left to discover, that there are "hardly any mysteries left on Earth." It's not uncommon for "end of history" narratives to just be about society living happily ever after in a stable state for the rest of time. It's a world built with the message that a lot of things will happen in the world, but after each crisis is over, everything is going to be okay.