I will never forget the day I was stuck in some meeting or other, forced to listen to a business degree cult lecture, and whoever it was brought up diminishing returns and I was so... so foolishly excited. I thought someone was finally going to bring up how there's only so much work people can do, and after a point there's just no version of "harder work" that makes more happen, and we were going to get someone with the magic papers of the line-god officially stating that work and profit have a kind of limit cap.
Instead it was just like "If you sell too hard, eventually you run out of money to make, so you just need to sell infinitely different variations of a thing, and you can make infinite amount of money by selling harder." I died a little more inside, because it became apparent that the business cult believes economics is a more powerful and real force than physics.
