Snapshot on Growth

One drive behind manufacturing is the imperative to produce an incredible volume of goods to attend to problems peculiar to a very large population mass, a mass that is enabled and encouraged by industrial buildout in the first place. And the drives to attend to those problems tend to have the corresponding effect of encouraging growth and accumulation, of reproducing the labor necessary and producing the means necessary to pull in greater and greater amounts of materials to satisfy its ends. And now that augmented mass, being a living thing, has a necessity to perpetuate itself, and so it adds its own urgent demands to the original mass that it bloomed into existence to serve. And so on. There is a chicken or egg question in there too.