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The standard response is evolutionary: If you leave profit (growth, resources) on the table, someone else will pick them up and beat you with it. The supposed
by Radim 4y ago
The standard response is evolutionary:
If you leave profit (growth, resources) on the table, someone else will pick them up and beat you with it.
The supposed analogy is biological. You may choose to check out of the always-do-more-with-less rat race, or even out of existence completely. But that choice will help populate the world with "not your successors". Similar with companies: your "sustainably making profit" premise is incompatible with "willingly foregoes growth / change" – at least in the long term, due to competition.
- wizzwizz4 4y ago> at least in the long term, due to competition. Assuming there's always some proportion of people who choose to do otherwise. Humans are powerful enough now that, if we wanted to, we could stop this. It'd require collaboratively punishing defectors, of course – because some humans are greedy – but until (and if) we meet aliens, we don't need to live like this, provided we can learn to work together. It's fortunate, then, that motivated collaboration can produce better results than competition. The collaborators might be able to win the Last Competition.