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#819 Geoffrey West - Scale; Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies

The Dissenter

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The Theory of Open-Ended Growth

After capitalism and free markets, there has become this idea that we always have to be growing. But the theory had built into it something very bad - a "finite time singularity" The only way to avoid that is you have to reinvent yourself: start over again. In order to continue open-ended growth, you have to have major innovations which lead to a paradigm shift. And as part of that, these innovations must come faster and faster.

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