Sustainability is the key to compounding. Although what you do matters, what you are doing now matters less if you can’t carry on doing it.
An engine is capital that earns (on average) more than you spend (on average). As soon as that balance of consumption and creativity changes, the clock starts ticking.
If money can sustainably make money, and we can spend less than the money sustainably makes... there is no reason that can’t carry on forever. If the sustainability is cared for.
For money to make money, you need to ask very pragmatic questions.
How is money made? What is wanted? Where is the scarcity? What are the skills and knowledge needed for those specific requirements? Are too many people already working on those problems? How are decisions made? What are the containers those decisions are being made in? What are the barriers to entry? What are the barriers to exit? What frameworks of understanding and action are we using? How are we communicating? What agreements do we have?
You can only be freed from the constraints of these questions if you have control of the balance between money coming in, and money going out.
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