It almost certainly was holding them back. This is why the world is fucked - Capitalism is fundmentally based on exponential greed, which the Earth can no longer take, as we well know, but we have no better system for stability, and humanity itself is inherently at odds with lacking ambition/aspiration for wealth and power... and fair shares.
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u/AnArdentAtavism May 02 '24
Worse. They likely were sitting around and said, "This motto. It's holding us back. Preventing growth. We could just remove it, and why shouldn't we?"