Your last point is exactly what capitalism has wrought, can see it in everything now. It relies on the apathy of the general public, which is immense. Every no

Your last point is exactly what capitalism has wrought, can see it in everything now. It relies on the apathy of the general public, which is immense. Every now & then there's an article on shrinkflation, and it's incredibly noticeable to all of us that what we're buying in the supermarkets we're getting less for more. Do we do anything about it? Nah. A lot of it is down to endless growth, investors hopping on the last few carriages of the train and demanding that more carriages be added after them, and everyone else already on-board obviously support that as well. There are very few companies that are run as "at capacity" ie fully satisfying their market size, competing with competitors, organically staying the same size due to external factors. Now it's all internal factors (which I include investors in) trying to balloon every company as large as they can.