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Honestly, I think trying to disable public stock trading altogether is the real solution. You can have a healthy, profitable company without constant growth, but shareholders want growth even if that means the health and profitability of the company suffers as a result
The current model is generally unsustainable unless the company ends up doing everything slightly related to its core business. Microsoft doesn't just write operating systems any more. Google is now Alphabet. Amazon sells everything, not just books. Unless the business is in natural resources (or similar), the only way to keep showing growth is to buy other companies and split out multiple "core" businesses.
On second thought, "unsustainable" was a poor choice of word. The model encourages monopolies. Not only does the single employee become disposable, the customers opinion no longer matters either. The business can run on spreadsheets alone, in that case. Creativity and innovation are forgotten in order to drive volume and everything eventually turns into Soylent Green.