"in modern capitalism, a business that keeps its performance is considered a failure. Success is defined as a continuous and unstoppable growth. In biology there’s a term for “continuous and unstoppable growth”: Cancer

  • dumpster_dove [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Reminds me of something from Jason Hickel’s The Divide regarding exponential growth:

    If Ancient Egypt had started with one cubic metre of possessions and grew them by 4.5 per cent per year, by the end of its 3,000-year civilisation it would have needed 2.5 billion solar systems to store all its stuff.