This would stop the currently exponential pace of growth from outpacing what society, and regulation, can adapt to. Thus avoiding the inevitable crash that will happen when we lose control of the exponentially accelerating train of technology, and it flies off the rails.
There’s an old riddle - How is a mouse when it spins?
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The higher the fewer
It’s not been confirmed, but it is believed that the weights of a governor was known as a mouse, and so it means that the higher they get, the further out the balls are, and so the fewer rotations they make