Growth: good or bad?

Published: July 13, 2023, 6 p.m.

Could growth be damaging economies?\xa0 It seems a ridiculous question, but it's well worth considering.


Growth is not about bigger or better, it's about more.\xa0 The drive for growth is a cancer in the fabric of how capital is deployed in modern business.\xa0 What does the future look like when growth is being fuelled by massive companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft?\xa0 The big three have unquestionably missed an opportunity to innovate because they've focused only on growth.\xa0\xa0


In this episode of Global Truths, Dr Keith Suter introduces us to what he calls 'the rot economy', where big business ebbs and flows through\xa0punishing cycles of binging and purging human capital in a drive for one thing: growth.

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