#Cryptocurrency especially inflamed this simple faith in perpetual exponential growth because, for a while anyway, it seemed as if "anyone" could create a new #crypto thingummy and it would always grow exponentially—for a little while. Hence the exponential-growth model felt like it was always getting proved and re-proved, and nobody bothered to ask themselves too hard why no such exponentially accruing hoard ever STAYED that way forever.
At best, I suppose, it was possible for the ambitious #entrepreneur to persuade themselves that the fault must lie in not growing big enough fast enough, thus allowing too much time to pass so that a hot new financial prospect would eventually become stale, a "legacy" thing, thus necessitating the saviour of #capitalism—i.e. the One True Exponential Growth Curve, the one hit memestock or cryptocoin or #ElonMusk venture that finally triggered The Singularity™ and achieved infinite unchallenged Economic Growth™ (as proved to exist by #mathematics, remember!)—always to be something that was punted into the near future. It's been assumed that there would always be an infinite supply of candidates for the One True Venture.