The traumas that are generated through the antagonistic acts of buying and selling in the market are made even worse by inferior goods.
If a good breaks down, or is dysfunctional in some way, it intensifies the antagonisms present in buying and selling.
Suddenly the seller is the asshole that dropped this problem at the buyer's feet, or the buyer is the asshole for complaining about what they got.
Shitty cars and bad food do much worse: they kill people. And we're scrambling to produce as much of those things as humanly possible, at a constantly extending scale.
This is just a glimpse, just a limited slice, but it is apparent that there is a process here underway. The conditions for war, revolution, and civil strife are being produced, the further one looks.
Much like heat being produced through the friction of rubbing one's hands together.
So why the rubbing hands?
