Growth for the sake of growth still troubles me. It seems unnatural, even perverted.

A relevant quote from Peter Thiel:  “If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?”

One person who was willing to risk political suicide was the visionary systems thinker Donella Meadows – one of the lead authors of the 1972 Limits to Growth report – and she didn’t mince her words. ‘Growth is one of the stupidest purposes ever invented by any culture,’ she declared in the late 1990s; ‘we’ve got to have an enough.’ In response to