Compensatory consumption generates an endless demand for fresh compensation.

Evidence

What alienated labour left workers for their leisure time could be `tickled, but not made to bear fruit’, as Habermas put it, in a phrase worthy of Dialectic of Enlightenment. The compensatory nature of consumption produced an insatiable demand for ever new forms of compensation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 569

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the culture industry’s promise of escape that returns the subject to the same drudgery. — connects to: Consumption demand is manufactured to absorb surplus productive capacity. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 196; Blocked power over productive activity produces consumerism as compensation. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 689; Scarcity is deliberately manufactured to sustain perceived value. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1879 (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Defines ‘compensatory consumption’ via its self-reproducing dynamic.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Consumption demand is manufactured to absorb surplus productive capacity. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 196; Blocked power over productive activity produces consumerism as compensation. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 689; Scarcity is deliberately manufactured to sustain perceived value. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1879 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Scarcity is deliberately manufactured to sustain perceived value. #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1879