Any ideal stretched to ‘black and white’ is going to go badly, just differing on what startegies the ‘winners’ must employ to game the system.

To the ‘infinite growth’, that’s actually possible, because we define ‘growth’ with this currency abstraction and with a whiff of inflation, the numbers can grow without end, satisfiying the “must do better than last year” itch while being able to stay level or even ertract in practical terms.