• gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de
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    the capitalists are unable to understand that the “eternal growth” their books mention is not feasible in real world and in fact it is a bug. There are physical upper limits that cannot be overcome. There will not be unlimited people that will always enrol in a new subscription. They need to somehow understand that at some point a company may reach their ceiling. This is not reason to do whatever panic change in order to show growth in the numbers. It will just not happen.

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      Ah but when the prices can’t go any higher they can always remove content, paying their suppliers less and getting cheaper hardware. I wish I was joking but these are the options that are left.

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      “And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds left to conquer.”

      – H. Gruber.

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      The thing is, they do know this. They are perfectly willing to drive a company into the ground on the promise of annual growth, and they’ll dump it the moment it cannot serve them monetarily.

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      Lies!

      It’s mathematically possible to have infinite growth as long as it’s in nominal terms and you have infinite inflation!

      (Joke aside, ponder on why central banks have a positive non-zero inflation target…)