The context for the tendency of the rate of profit to fall is having a capitalist system of economic relations. Profit doesn't need to be a driver of economy, that's simply a mechanic within a specific economic system that's currently failing. The point of an economy is to allocate labour and resources in a way that improves lives for the people living in a particular society. Using the profit motive to allocate resources is how markets do this allocation, but that's certainly not the only way to do things. A lot of economists (and you) should take a look at how alternative economic systems in Vietnam, China, and DPRK work. In case of China and Vietnam, you have a hybrid system where you have state planning and the state holds the commanding heights of the economy, while markets and private enterprise are used as allocators within that context. Meanwhile, DPRK has a full state planned economy combined with cooperative ownership. All three are outperforming western economic system by a wide margin right now, and they don't suffer from constant economic crashes we see in the west.
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