Capital expands endlessly and inevitably seeks to bring more and more aspects of the world into its orbit, but it also necessarily produces crises, first nad foremost for its exploited creators, proletarians, whose own reproduction is reduced to the barest minimum, and sometimes less than that. As capital drives competing capitalists to cut costs, workers' wages are cut or fall behind inflation, mechanization introduces less autonomy and greater dangers, the body is abused, social relations are mined, and [...] whole populations are abandoned when their exploitation proves unprofitable.