Ahh you forgot the thing that makes America great: a new invention opens an entire new industry that attracts investors away from current businesses that are st

Ahh you forgot the thing that makes America great: a new invention opens an entire new industry that attracts investors away from current businesses that are stable and not rapidly growing discontinuing the negative spiral you described. Furthermore, companies are not obligated to perpetually take on investors. Perhaps they simply pay a regular dividend instead on the profits they already have like what power utilities do