Industries grow without natural limits and relentlessly seek new markets

Evidence

Industries, unlike organisms, have no organic limits on their own growth; they are constantly in search of new markets, or of new ways to exploit old ones more effectively; as Karl Marx unsympathetically observed, they “nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.” Soon, the posters came to define Paris; by one contemporary account, the city was “hardly more than an immense wall of posters scattered from the chimneys down to sidewalks with clusters of squares of paper of all colors and formats, not to mention simple inscriptions.” — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 68

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Marx’s description of capital’s restless expansion, which also grounds later chapters on media and attention consolidation. — connects to: Capitalism perpetually seeks new privatization frontiers like water and seeds — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 81; Markets are human creations amenable to redesign, not natural forces — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial…, 1237; Capitalism requires perpetually unsatiated desire to maintain civilizational growth — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3420 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Market economies require deliberate political construction, not natural emergence #contradicts (0.92) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 364
• Markets are human creations amenable to redesign, not natural forces #contradicts (0.85) — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, 1237
• Capitalism requires perpetually unsatiated desire to maintain civilizational growth #expands (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3420
• Unlimited economic growth necessarily consumes nonrenewable resources, making sustainable growth an oxymoron #qualifies (0.78)
• Mediatized market societies increasingly waste resources producing demand rather than goods #qualifies (0.75) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 172
• Building autonomous objective culture resembles economic takeoff into self-sustaining growth #expands (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 87