ABSTRACT
This chapter shows in detail that not only capitalism, but any market society entails counter-emancipatory consequences. It starts with the fundamental reason for externalisation and exploitation as illustrated in the iceberg model: the structural coercion for companies for squeezing, that is, the competition-driven need to produce as cheaply as possible. This aspect is reinforced by constantly increasing inequalities in the terms of trade, on the one hand with regard to care, and on the other hand between the Global South and the North. The reason for this is the respectively lower possibility for streamlining compared to (industrial) products. The subsequent section is concerned with the effect which multiplies the problems, especially in the form of extractivism: Any market needs economic growth, and it is growing exponentially – and so does the demand for resources. At this point, the core of the market logic is analysed: What exactly does it do? Here we see artificial scarcity of sufficient resources – with dramatic consequences for billions of people. Finally, we come to the individual level. The pressure of utilisation as well as alienation come to the surface. And also that which regulates our coexistence: structural hatred.
