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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).





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

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



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