Stein's Law

Have you ever heard of "Stein’s Law"? Named after University of Virginia economics professor Herbert Stein, it states:

"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."

Do you really need to be a renowned university professor to come up with such a brilliant assertion?

Maybe...

Perhaps what makes this law profound is not its complexity, but the strange reality that humans often act as though some things will go on forever.

Things may stay the same for a long time, but one day they will come to an end, and something…