Mainstream economics assumes that everything has to keep growing all the time, or it's failing. There is a fringe subfield of steady-state economics: https://e

Mainstream economics assumes that everything has to keep growing all the time, or it's failing. There is a fringe subfield of steady-state economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady-state_economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady-state_economy