The bottomless pit of unlimited consumption

The corporation's ability to whisk away accumulated value through the distribution of dividends made it so that the membrane that was the corporation was always on the edge of starvation and predation. 

That trick of keeping things always on the edge of scarcity no matter how much affluence had been attained found its counterpart in the empty consumption of mid-20th century America. Consumption that was always about the symbol of affluence but never the attainment of affluence, the way of life that was always about striving and never about actually achieving a station, that consumption fit perfectly with the corporate extraction model. 

The bottomless pit of an empty spiritual void into which unlimited consumption could be poured without it ever filling up the person, that state of being was the demand side counterpart to the corporate arrangement of enormous balance sheet profits resulting in a management perpetually on the edge of starvation and predation.