Consistency may be running out. It may be time to turn this elegant observation (not immutable law) into an anti-pattern. As an optimist I prefer "tendency of systems toward failure of innovation" (AKA sloth of the entrenched incumbents). This is the last crisis. Because it's not a crisis of capital, it's a crisis of the very substrate (the planet) which allows for the possibility of capital. Schumpeter's creative destruction is now literally environmental destruction. A new broom is required. Let's hope it's not the communists again. A few simple bits of regulation could go a long way to correct things.