Having worked for a US company in the past, and currently employed in a subsidiary of a pretty big corporation now ($2 billion annual turnover) I see this time and again - growth, growth, growth! Always growth. Growth is to be expected. 10% growth year-over-year. No growth? Manager's heads start rolling.

But you see, growth can't come faster than what the limits are of our physical planet and the finite resources we are exploiting. Sooner or later we will hit a wall, and some corporate douches will insist on more growth. It's going to be sad and funny at the same time.