 engenders no searching debates of the good life,” having already located it in availability and consumption as described in Chapter 14 (107-109).Second, “inequality favors the advancement and stability of the reign of technology”—“stages of affluence” created by inequality only support a consumption lifestyle, which is an effect of the device paradigm (112).He concludes this four chapter section by noting that “politics is merely the metadevice of the technological order” .