Conditions for alienation: Technological development and capital accumulation

In the chapter it is argued that both capital accumulation and technological development need each other, but are also conditioned and defined by each other. In practice, this entails that technology and its development, in capitalism, are about endlessly producing and marketing new technologies involving a profit motive. In other words, in this organization, technology and its development do not have a purpose apart from the creation of monetary value. This modern-day assembly is framed in the chapter as a capital-technology alliance to highlight the intertwined relation of capital accumulation and technological development, and how they both produce conditions for alienation. This is because both of them contribute to a lack of control and freedom in personal and communal lives, albeit in somewhat different ways, and generate personal and communal detachment from fellow humans and from the rest of living nature.