Reel

A lot of modern economic activity is based on a very specific kind of exploitation, an exploitation in which a certain need or desire is isolated and then seized upon, drawing in the consumer like one reels in a fish, with really the same sort of end desired: consumption in the form of extracted profit.

And so there are a multitude of forces seizing upon and then pulling at these exposed strands, further unraveling, exposing further strands still. 

The only way to continue to work in this economic modality over a longer term is to encourage perpetual expansion, perpetual growth, because the strands broken by exploitation can only be mended after the exploitation - the pulling away force - is halted altogether, which necessitates a transformation of the economic modality. 

Barring transformation, unceasing growth is required, to continuously generate a body fresh, with more strands to pull.