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ButterflyEffect  ·  2963 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why do we strive for growth?

Every KPI on the face of the earth is measured on a year over year chart, that's for sure. Artists and businesses are examples but again, you're going to "double digit growth". Well what happens when you hit the point where every person owns 5 of your bars? Do you say "okay now we need to make them own 6 or we're failing as a business"? What kind of logic is that if you're already a very profitable business.

I am not a business or salesman by heart. I can study some of this stuff and work in it but in the end I am very much a "who gives a fuck, this is fucking ridiculous, how do we make this something that will be robust 5 years from now instead of growing x% right now" person. I certainly would have died early in the hunter gatherer phase of civilization.