logoalt Hacker News

deepvibrationstoday at 12:59 PM1 replyview on HN

So could it be Capitalism?

Linear growth is a failure; only infinite, exponential growth is acceptable.


Replies

nekusartoday at 1:18 PM

Yes, yes it is.

Or rather, every economist reads the first 20 pages of Smith's Wealth Of Nations, and basically skips everything afterwards.

Like... This gem: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."