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[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (41 children)

Capitalism naturally ends up in this position. That's why it's so hard to "fix" -- to those at the top, nothing is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Exactly, capitalism is economic perpetual motion, you can't have exponential growth in a finite system.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I might be wrong, but I think you mean infinite growth in a finite system.

You can have exponential growth in a finite system can't you? As exponential is just that it gets faster and faster compared to linearly increasing variables.

I guess at some point growth has to stop being exponential in a finite system, but the same can be argued for linear growth I think.

[–] elegantgoat1 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah I agree. It's still called exponential growth, even if it's temporary.

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