>One problem is that economic success is always judged in terms of growth.

True. And then some company gets dumped only because it has become stable and churns a hefty 9% dividend - it stopped growing, ah, so we can't become rich betting that it will grow fast, so let's bet it will fall. And we'll help the fall, of course.

And the environmental cost of ruining a company and then building a new one, with all the re-branding, new advertising campaign, destroying the stock, firing and hiring, all the enormous paperwork... that doesn't count. New babies, however, get all the negative press one can imagine.