Yet the fairy tale that growth not only can continue indefinitely but continually accelerate has to be kept up. It's almost as though word “enough” has been banned from economy altogether.
> It's almost as though word “enough” has been banned from economy altogether.
Could you please stop being aggressive with other users in comments here? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and it's very much against the site rules. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Edit: this has unfortunately been a problem for quite a while:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44697685 (July 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42955972 (Feb 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498260 (Sept 2020)
We ban accounts that keep doing this and won't stop when we ask them, so it would be really good if you'd fix this.
And yet compared to a couple decades ago we have declining infant mortality and life expectancy, record low for life satisfaction metrics, demographic collapse, climate catastrophes piling up, enshittification, but yay! growth!
You know what else is called a "growth"?