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Some objections are bound to be raised about an economy openly based on absurdity. It is our contention that capitalism is just as absurd as any pile derived economy. The fact that globalized capitalism makes it cheaper for rural Africans to buy American produce than locally grown is testimony to capitalist absurdity. The current methods of resource allocation, as dictated by capitalism, are just as logistically inefficient as random pile relocating. Those that take capitalism seriously and actually give credence to supply and demand curves are deluding themselves to death.
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One of capitalism's primary functions is to output products. Capitalism paints these products in a variety of shades of marketing. Products are often confused with needs in our current system. The desire to possess products is an attempt to buy the future. Unfortunately, this cancels out any possibility of altering the present. This is one of capitalism's most effective tools for maintaining power – selling and producing an obsession with the concept of “next” and “new” -- while at the same time diffusing stagnation. This distance that products emanate – their ties to “a future” – is what makes them objects. Fixed and idealized, these objects propel an unreal everyday world.
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