Not a forcing function unless you’re levered. Competition can’t push your return on a productive asset below zero (by definition), just lower by increasing the value of said asset while reducing the cash flows from it.
This is not leverage.
> Everyone is born with a net negative of the necessities of life, the difference though is that a very small minority are bequeathed this by well heeled ancestors
By your definition, no, they too are born in entropic deficit, it's just satisfied immediately by their parents. (This is how humans work.)