Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/190/en

The prospect of success of an invention moves a bank to make credit available for the establishment of a production facility. That is: the spirit of the human being (idea) creates capital, and this congeals, by way of labor, into buildings, means of production, raw materials, energy, and so forth. Max Weber — German political economist and sociologist (1864–1920) — observed: "A lifeless machine is congealed spirit." The spirit now presses further toward the realization of the invention; it impels toward work. Only through work does the production plant come into being, and within it, in various stages of labor, the manufacture of the product. What characterizes the industrial production process is that values arise purely by virtue of the fact that the spirit of invention determines the course of human labor and modifies it in manifold ways — whereby the outward expression of this spirit must be sought in the manifold configuration of capital. Nature in the form of raw materials and energy recedes proportionally into the background the more human intelligence flows into the production process — that is, the more it articulates itself in a labor-divided manner. Labor division, moreover, has a cost-reducing effect on the production of commodities and thereby promotes all the more powerfully the expansionary drive of industry and commerce, right up to the commercialization of all services. Capital arises, on the one hand, through the human spirit of invention and through labor division; on the other hand, it ensures that labor division overflows into the boundless. As a consequence, the industrial production process threatens to emancipate itself entirely from nature and, by way of digitization, from the laboring human being. It becomes the overpowering counterpole of agriculture and threatens to burst the two barriers that are meant to hold it within reasonable bounds — namely, nature and the legal order.