If you consider human society to be the gradient between the newly created energy reserves via the big bang and the heat death of the universe, then equilibrium

If you consider human society to be the gradient between the newly created energy reserves via the big bang and the heat death of the universe, then equilibrium means death. Equilibrium models are static and don't feel alive. There is only one state and if you get off it, you make things worse, not better. Silly you, things are already perfect. In reality the economy is alive and dynamic and imperfect.