Why can’t I, in theory, start a business, grow it until it’s successful, then just…be content and stop growing? Why do people talk about it as inherent to the system to grow like cancer? What about capitalism causes that and why can’t we avoid it? Like, technically speaking?
Because, according to capitalism, growth benefits everyone. Both the wealthy and the poor. The rich get richer, the poor get jobs. They can all be taxed and that tax can then be spent on improving public services and infrastructure, which then also benefits the unemployed. The larger your business grows, the more wealth it generates, the more jobs in provides, the more tax it pays. So, by that logic, growth is seen as the best indicator of success.
except the rich and corpos don’t pay tax