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by bit-anarchist 9 days ago
The property of preserving/sustaining itself.
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Okay. Do you then consider an equilibrium to be inherently unsustainable?

If you take «growth» to be defined as d(something)/dt>0, I’d posit that any equilibrium by definition has zero net growth, whether it’s a static or dynamic equilibrium.

For social systems, yes.

That said, in long run, there's both a tendency for most growth to fall and for basically nothing to be sustainable.