> A software company with more modest aims, that has a stable customer base and doesn’t change much over time (does such a thing exist?) will be more like the h

> A software company with more modest aims, that has a stable customer base and doesn’t change much over time (does such a thing exist?) will be more like the humble tribe that follows the yearly migration of the antelope and focuses on sustainable, tried-and-true techniques. (Whether such companies will end up like the hapless Gauls, overrun by Caesar and his armies, is another question.) That last part is the key: with the strong preference for short term gains in an economic system where finances are considered and reconsidered quarterly, sustainability is an afterthought. "Growth at all costs" aligns with the dominant ideology of imperialism, and it's just as prevalent in corporations and organizations as it is in nation states. Literal millennia of evidence for that approach out-competing others is hard to beat, and I think if we knew how to survive a different way even at the micro level we'd probably live in a much better society.