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They don't prioritize growth for the same reason healthy cells don't prioritize growth.

You need to be cancer or a public corporation to think growth is the most important thing.

There isn't any value judgement here. There are not more cooperatives because they don't prioritize growth. Who are you angry at?

This oft-repeated analogy to biological systems doesn't make much sense, human individuals biologically stay homeostatic with nature, but human groups have grown exponentially, building civilization as you know it. If we didn't prioritize growth, we'd still be hunter gatherers.

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