I think the point is that you are developing, it all works. If you are not improving, it clearly doesn't, but that is true regardless of "what the economy is geared for".
If you have a complete meltdown, that's not the growth economy's fault.
I think you’ve chosen the wrong thing to worship.
Is that true? Has that been true for Zimbabwe née Rhodesia?
What about Britain following the fall of the Roman Empire?