Technological progress legitimates capitalism as the best possible system

Evidence

Technological evolution is obviously good in many ways. It is the common measure of success of our system and has brought capitalist society unprecedented material growth. This fact is undeniable, and it is also the favorite weapon of politicians and economists to assert categorically that there can be no better model than the current one. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 122

Categorization

• XREF: This is the legitimation function of technology — a mechanism by which capitalism’s arrangements are made to appear natural, feeding the ‘invisible order’ thesis. — connects to: Technological rationality has grown stronger while society grows more irrational — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 47; Technical progress produces a comfortable, democratic unfreedom — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 105; Capitalism sustains legitimacy through broken promises, not fulfilled ones — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 118 (+3 more)