The constraints on a continuous growth in a finite environment are formally analyzed, adding the effect of the necessary dynamics of costs. The unavoidable global collapse is deduced. The effect of competition in a growing economic system on the evolution of  unequal share of wealth is also analyzed and discussed, showing the necessity of increase of inequalities under the premisesof growth and competition .
It is still common wisdom amongst economists, politicians and lay people that economic growth is a necessity of our social systems, at least to avoid distributional conflicts. This paper challenges such belief moving from a purely physical theoretical perspective. It formally considers the constraints imposed by a finite environment on the prospect of continuous growth, including the dynamics of costs. As costs grow faster than production it is easy to deduce a final unavoidable global collapse . Then, analyzing and discussing the evolution of the unequal share of wealth under the premises of growth and competition, it is shown that the increase of inequalities is a necessary consequence of the premises .
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