@sickburnbro @PraxisOfEvil This is something I've considered quite a bit, that a financial/societal system which is based on endless growth (the ideology of a cancer cell) would have to have some sort of pseudo-rationale behind it. In this case it looks like it was the assumption that productivity would endlessly increase to catch up and there would be predictable, periodic tech discoveries to help provide boosts and 'lift all boats'

The plan didn't work out