Production regulates mental consumption as it does material consumption.

Evidence

Nevertheless there is reason to believe that production regulates consumption in the process of mental life, just as it does in that of material life, especially where the former has so closely approximated the latter, as it has in the culture industry. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 267

Categorization

• XREF: This is the standardization thesis — the engine to run on social-media feeds where algorithmic production literally regulates mental consumption. — connects to: Overproduction forces the apparatus to manufacture consumer needs and work-desire — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 196; Rational administration of consumption masks the loss of individual control over life decisions — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 186; Mass production has invaded private mental space through immediate mimesis — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 128
• DEFINE: States the production-regulates-consumption mechanism central to the culture-industry theory.