<story><title>Entropy Is Fatal</title><url>https://kerkour.com/entropy-is-fatal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superb-owl</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure &amp;quot;Entropy&amp;quot; is the right word for what the author wants to talk about, but the article raises some interesting points&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 1st poison: Unlimited and uncontrolled growth&lt;p&gt;IMO this is by far the biggest poison, and the one our society is most prone to ignoring. Every company, government budget, population, etc is considered &amp;quot;successful&amp;quot; if it&amp;#x27;s growing, and &amp;quot;failing&amp;quot; if it&amp;#x27;s shrinking. And the growth is always measured in terms of percentage, meaning the growth is compounding&amp;#x2F;exponential.&lt;p&gt;Sustainable living means getting comfortable with flat or even negative growth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nightski</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t agree. Growth is not the only thing valued.  Value companies are a big part of the US Markets for example.  Dividend stocks are a thing.&lt;p&gt;But growth isn&amp;#x27;t about one company ever increasing.  It&amp;#x27;s about new companies innovating and taking over old ones.  As long as there is innovation, there will be growth.&lt;p&gt;Change should be embraced.  I personally see no reason to advocate for stagnation of human progress with the same handful of companies serving humans for all time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Entropy Is Fatal</title><url>https://kerkour.com/entropy-is-fatal</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>superb-owl</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure &amp;quot;Entropy&amp;quot; is the right word for what the author wants to talk about, but the article raises some interesting points&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; 1st poison: Unlimited and uncontrolled growth&lt;p&gt;IMO this is by far the biggest poison, and the one our society is most prone to ignoring. Every company, government budget, population, etc is considered &amp;quot;successful&amp;quot; if it&amp;#x27;s growing, and &amp;quot;failing&amp;quot; if it&amp;#x27;s shrinking. And the growth is always measured in terms of percentage, meaning the growth is compounding&amp;#x2F;exponential.&lt;p&gt;Sustainable living means getting comfortable with flat or even negative growth.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sumy23</author><text>Growth is possible by increasing outputs from the same level of inputs. Certain types of growth are unsustainable, yet other types of growth, e.g. productivity growth, is definitely sustainable.</text></comment>