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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by masklinn on Monday November 27, 2023 @04:39AM (#38430267)
> If you think about it the growth mindset is quite psychotic.

More to the point, if you think about it the biggest follower of the growth mindset is cancer.

And turns out that’s not just of

> unclear benefits to society at large

But actively detrimental to it, and ultimately, with a handful of exceptions, to the cancer itself.

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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by jacquesm on Monday November 27, 2023 @07:43AM (#38431637)
That was exactly the way I worded it.

https://jacquesmattheij.com/if-growth-was-good-then-getting-...

This obsession with growth is so utterly self-centered. I still have those chairs, by the way.

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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by masklinn on Monday November 27, 2023 @08:15AM (#38431927)
Seeing the date, I would not be surprised if that’s where I originally got it from, in all honesty.
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Re:Brother [printers] have gotten to where they are now, by ... by jacquesm on Monday November 27, 2023 @08:19AM (#38431959)
Regardless of where you got it, the analogy makes perfect sense and I'm sure others have come to the exact same conclusion. Growth will always be capped somehow and the sooner companies realize that you can only grow forever at the expense of everybody else the better. It's in a way amazing that whole industries can be so utterly divorced from reality that they'll wreck a good chunk of the planet just to prove the obvious.
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