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> It seems a bit much that we ask for companies to constantly grow Its often brought up, that corporations and the economy have to keep growing ... but is it r
by clumsysmurf 9y ago
> It seems a bit much that we ask for companies to constantly grow
Its often brought up, that corporations and the economy have to keep growing ... but is it really necessary? Why can't both achieve some steady state equilibrium within a system of finite resources?
- akerl_ 9y agoShort of equilibrium by government/societal-mandate, being a business and ending up in market equilibrium is really quite difficult/dangerous. You have to be in equilibrium with at least one but far more likely multiple other entities, you can't collude with them because that would itself be anti-competitive towards new entries into the market, and so you need to make new advances / optimizations at the same rate as your competition, or else one of you is going to destabilize the equilibrium.