I was thinking about the incentives on publicly traded companies to show continuous growth, and wondered what the impacts would be if we just stopped doing that. I'm imagining a scenario where people can still invest in companies to support them in exchange for tax write-offs, and we still have the stock market for commodities, but remove publicly traded companies as an idea. I know there would be impacts in many areas, but I'm curious about the degree of those impacts and if we could improve corporate incentive structures without completely upending the entire economy.
