you cannot permanently pit an absurd human convention, such as the spontaneous increment of debt [compound interest] against the natural law of the spontaneous decrement of wealth [entropy]â€. The population of “negative pigs†(debt) can grow without limit since it is merely a number; the population of “positive pigs†(real wealth) faces severe physical constraints [From The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All – O’Reilly Radar]