Before revision:  In multiplicative growth, ergodicity is broken in such a way that fluctuations have a net-negative effect on the time-average growth rate , although they have no effect on the growth rate of the ensemble average.
After revision:  In multiplicative growth, ergodicity is broken in such a way that fluctuations have a net-negative effect on the long-time growth rate of resources but no effect on the growth rate of the ensemble average.