Economic flows are maximum when production (hot source) and consumption (cold source) have a high potential difference. This supposes that the reverse flow of goods (production => consumption), that is to say that which represents the quantity of production work (and therefore money) and goes towards the destruction of goods is also very high. . Therefore, this presupposes a situation of full employment, high productivity and rapid technological development leading to the appearance of new products.
It will be understood that this stage of development can only be fleeting, since several of the preceding factors evolve in a contradictory manner. Thus, the destruction capacity of individuals gradually decreases under the influence of two factors: equipment goods tend to saturate this capacity (they have a certain duration * and "new things" tend to decrease), on the other hand, the continuous increase in productivity pushes out of the system many producers who, as consumers, become less efficient, as the return flow slows down.
So we see that the system can only tend to zero from its optimum
and because of its success.
There is no need here to invoke the usual physical limitations: it is a purely intrinsic phenomenon to a system. That's what I tried briefly to explain
here.
We also understand why a system which "succeeds" encourages its agents to persevere in the same direction, even though the action becomes counterproductive and it is futile to expect the same consequences as those observed previously. The illusion then leads to believe that the reason that the efforts are not crowned with success does not result from a bad orientation, but from an insufficient effort in this direction.
We perceive the triumph of this blindness in the theory of "runoff" invoked by the reigning macronism ...
* There is a growing gap between the productivity of production labor and that of labor labor.