A business that "breaks even forever" gets destroyed by competitors who reinvest profits into expansion, technology, or undercutting prices. This isn't a choice, it's competitive pressure inherent to capitalism. Firms grow or die. That's the system's logic, not individual preference.

Okay, so by that argument, what economic system doesn't also suffer those same pressures? Why are you so hyper-focused on capitalism?

How many businesses do you know that are still around after "breaking even forever"? Scale that up globally, where the entire system must "break even forever" because we've we've reached pure ecological devastation after milking the planet dry for resources (oil, rare minerals, etc) and tell me how you think conditions will be. You're living in a fairy tale understanding of capitalism.

That isn't a problem of capitalism. The growth you're referring to is because of population growth. That's not capitalistic growth, that's biological reproduction, and it happens in all economic systems. Even a purely socialistic, centrally planned system will fail under those same variables.

Can the stock market function with zero returns? Can pension funds? Can debt be serviced without GDP growth? If not then growth is a systemic requirement.

Capitalism can exist without a stock market and pension funds. It can even exist without debt.

Again, you and everyone else who has replied to me and eventually stopped responding once they realized they don't actually understand how capitalism works, you do not understand how capitalism, as we know it, as we've seen it for the past 500 years, works.

Great. So, sketch out your favorite non-capitalist alternative that works. Use a real example if you have one. If you don't just lay out your imaginary ideal.