This is not true. The stock market is usually valued after the dividends it can pay over a certain number of years, somewhat between 10 and 20. It’s not infinit

This is not true. The stock market is usually valued after the dividends it can pay over a certain number of years, somewhat between 10 and 20. It’s not infinite. If no further grow comes that’s it and the stock keeps it value and will keep paying dividends for the foreseeable time, and has for already 100 years. Sure investors ask for growth in their communication, but the actual thing they are asking for is a better performance than the rest of the market. You could say this bottoms out at 0 but recent event have shown that low negative interests are possible, because stashing cash has a physical cost. Many economies can still work well without population growth, other fail despite population growth. If that was the case that population dictates GDP, then investment choices would be very easy.