Before revision: We address two issues that puzzled moral and socio-economic thinking since antiquity. The first of the puzzles is the emergence and selection fitness of altruist behavior in a world of self-reproducing individuals (or capital,etc.; memes in general). The second is the sustainability of growth and the survival in a stochastic world where along with large gains individuals incur often very large and even total losses. We show that the solution for each of these puzzles lies within the other one. It is known that in a multiplicative random process even if in the mathematical evaluation of the expected gain the wins overwhelm the losses, one is likely to be faced with extinction.For example if the probability of a total loss event is arbitrarily small but finite, the measure of histories with non-vanishing gains approaches 0 for asymptotic times >.
After revision: Most of real life systems have a random component: the multitude of endogenous and exogenous factors influencing them result in stochastic fluctuations of the measure of histories with non-vanishing gains approaches 0 for asymptotic times >.