Although I flagged this item in my miscellaneous notes it didn’t make the ‘Fuck Shop’ final edition. As an architectonic conjugation. One of Karl Marx’s headlining mottos:

OVERPRODUCTION
OVERCONSUMPTION
OVERPOPULATION

As an unimpeachable T-shirt legend to call and encapsulate the capitalist code.

  Take the thorny issue of OVERPOPULATION; which must be owned as the premier problem facing our heaving human race. Every complication we currently encounter is exacerbated by the surfeit of bodies inhabiting our planet. All social concerns over health, unemployment, security, housing, welfare, education; the environmental deterioration caused by air-sea-land pollution, calamitous climate change, warming weather; are directly related to population excess. Those experts denouncing our selfish, wasteful, commodified conduct know the western individual behaves quite correctly; is largely ecologically nearly neutral, while personally responsible and globally considerate – there’s just too many of us going about it.
  OVERCONSUMPTION explains itself; plainly, empirically; just cast a glance at your fat arsed public. Was not exactly Marx’s meaning – in his day those who were morbidly obese were treated as freaks; a sideshow attraction. Watch any pre-1960s film that contains a common crowd scenario – you’ll not see one full farting family of sweaty wobbling monster munts, as you would today – is a whole other argument. Marx was discussing conspicuous consumption and our propensity for this idle act. Gotta keep up with those jeering Jonses. Vainly. Frantically. Unnecessarily. To signal the significance of pounding property paraded as a symbol of social prestige – the piggish processes of accumulation. As clarified in his Department Two: the cycle of consumption – that each commodity ever made incorporates the costs, however miniscule, of every piece of work performed upon it; especially those getting it to your table. ‘Service industry’ is what we announce when accused of loading leveraged logistics.
  As OVERPRODUCTION is conjoined with the above. Cart or horse? Chicken or egg? Or, so advertisers keep advising. The market dictates; we only follow trends; give ’em what they want; or what we think they need… or whatever crap we can get away with. Was one of Herr Marx’s pertinent predictions. Would he laugh or cry to know how truly he has targeted our swollen swaggering uber age and the blatant hoax that is the gig economy.

  Let’s blame the Nazis, as the softest option – fat fish in a barrel. Those heinous eugenicists had distorted Freddy Nietzsche’s utopian vision of a naturally evolving superman set in trying to breed an urgent Ubermensch rather than let evolution take its course. A phylogenetic program now rightly condemned as the absolute evil of totalitarian social engineering or ethnological pre-selection; population control; experimental evolution; fucking racism – call it what you will. I guess the liberal proponents of unregulated laissez-faire breeding are socially sound in trying to discourage unethical racial and cultural correction but I cannot help seeing a desire to increase consumer numbers as the private priority; the hidden agenda of employers and rentiers keen to exploit an ever-extending strategic scarcity of capital and land. Manfully supported by members of our parliament… those middleclass mothers… every last one... is a lying cunt.

  The current denial of the critical threat posed by rampant overpopulation is the world’s BIGGEST problem. By quite a long shot.