The market reduces every object to an indistinct part of a totalizing stream

Evidence

The market, then, must make every object an indistinct part of a totalizing stream, a stream that must endure and turn from the “sustainable” to the “luxurious” as we demand more, more, more. We’ve already seen how dealing with this excess leads to waste, to sales, to thrift-store donations and giveaways. And if one builds up a large enough business out of reselling things, then it might make sense to give up one’s house and instead invest in a space for the storage and movement of this constant stream of waste. It might make sense to purchase and move into a warehouse. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 283

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly continues the four-infrastructures thread — this passage motivates the ‘warehouse’ infrastructure the reader needs to teach.