Overabundance and deprivation form one causal system, not an administrative problem

Evidence

In several places, Adorno points to the already existing possibilities for emancipation enabled by the contemporary state of the forces of production. Yet possibilities alone are not enough to bring about the establishment of a truly emancipated society. After all, the fact that overabundance is produced while deprivation of the most basic necessities prevails is not an administrative problem; rather, the former results from the latter. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1568

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Dense claim that scarcity is not a distribution failure but the structural product of the same system producing abundance — resists one-sentence summary and sits at the core of Adorno’s critique of political economy.
• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to the sacrifice essay’s treatment of how material deprivation is produced and ritualized within stratified societies.
• XREF: connects to: Poverty and unemployment function as deliberate system solutions, not failures — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 159; Plenty, not confrontation, is what vanquishes the overconsumption monster — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1389