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Why endless economic growth can't last forever

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Our entire economic paradigm demands that companies produce and distribute more every single quarter forever. Trying to execute an exponential growth curve on a spherical planet with finite physical resources is a mathematical joke that we collectively pretend makes perfect sense.

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