Gradients Dominate Points
From Rest of What I Know
Very few things allow precise aim, and almost all of those things are engineering problems. Things that are coordination-dominated are sloppy and imprecise and consequently, you can only apply thrust towards a target or away from the target, with little control over the minimum thrust.
You'll see this in many places:
- Companies are either growing or shrinking - they don't stay constant
- Nations are either improving or failing - the latter especially so for those who want to stay constant
And perhaps not so obviously, also true for living beings, which are either going through continuous cell replacement or dying as cells fail to be replaced.
A question like "does our GDP need to be bigger?" is therefore a meaningless question. Implicitly, the only other option is the opposite: shouldn't our GDP be smaller.
