True entire world has this failure mode - we pretend that infinite growth exists and expect large successful companies to do the same or better every year, igno

True entire world has this failure mode - we pretend that infinite growth exists and expect large successful companies to do the same or better every year, ignoring the diminishing returns and exponential R&D costs involved with almost everything. After 100 years, a 0.5% efficiency or emissions reduction gain on the internal combustion engine costs likely as much as the first 20-50 years of exponential gains made. And so Volkswagen cheats. Moores law is strained so we do wild branch prediction to meet the expectations and eventually roll back entire processor generations with mitigations. But executives got their bonus already at that point The enshittification is built into our world as a result.