[deeThrow94]

Man, more people should read Schumpeter. Capitalism is really good for rapid growth. The second the profit motive negatively affects the quality of the product or efficiency of its production a company should be nationalized to prevent the profit motive from destroying part of our economy (the actually-useful part, that is, not investors or shareholders or dividends).

[Juliate]

But rapid growth is not necessarily _good_. Cancer is rapid growth.

[Rzor]

That's exactly the point of his follow-up.

[Juliate]

My point is that capitalism, as a system, has to adapt to survive, either its own demise through rapid/unlimited growth (like cancer), either through its replacement by something else (public service or some other structure).