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No, just simple mathematics. It's certainly possible for a company to actually create wealth faster than the average rate, but it's much more likely to be cannibalizing. Were it otherwise, of course, average economic growth would be higher. There is nothing contradictory in saying that most business growth comes from creative destruction (ie, cannibalization) and also that the net sum of business activity produces slow growth.


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