Industrialization industrializes everything in its path - including us. Not content to merely industrialize the manufacture of inanimate objects, living creatures are industrialized in the form of factory farming. Nor does it stop at food animals. Industrialization next sets its sights on us. As it turns out, the consumer is also a product, manufactured by a different industry - an industry of manufacturing vacuous wants and specious needs. Industrialization brings buyer and supplier together, and then proceeds to industrialize both.
Quantity is king. The quantity of products must be increased, the quantity of consumers must be increased (why do you think that overpopulation is a taboo subject that the mainstream media dare not touch?), the quantity of consumption per consumer must be increased, and the quantity of production per consumer must be increased. We have, ourselves, become farm animals in the sweatshop of life.
The only quality that matters in this demented system is the quality of the product from the narrow - and media crippled - perspective of the consumer of the product. And the more that that perspective can be forcibly narrowed, the greater the quantity that can be produced. If the meat tastes good, the life experience of the factory farm animal is irrelevant. It's simply not a factor in the cold equation. Similarly, if the consumer spends well, then the life experience of the consumer animal is irrelevant. Quality of life is a quaint and indulgent concern in a highly tuned industrialized system.
But, is this system then merely a beast run amok, that has come to now only serve itself? Well, almost. With all that displacement of quality, where does all that displaced quality of life go? Quality and quantity are often inversely proportional. Implicit in flooding a space with quantity is the displacement from that space of quality. The beast harvests upwards, starting from the lowest levels of the most vulnerable and most easily exploited, and over time creates an ever growing disparity between the ultra rich and the impoverished - an ever increasing concentration of wealth and high standard of living at the upper echelons. Quality is essentially being harvested, giving rise to a monopoly on quality.
Starting from the lowest levels, many people participate in the creation of the beast, all in exchange for the vain hope of moving upwards to the next level and a better existence. Some will manage to cling on for long enough to make it up, while the less fortunate majority will be shaken loose, to fall into the churning masses down below who are left behind to fight it out amongst themselves at the trough of the lower level. But, despite the temporary reprieve for those who make it higher, all are ultimately betrayed - as the beast turns out to have no loyalty to those who have served it and participated in its rise. Ultimately, even, the concentration of evil at the top - the super wealthy, themselves - will be industrialized by the machine.
Ultimately, this giant machine will make other small machines that will serve its interests better than man, and man will be destroyed - a fitting fate for a species that has perpetrated the extermination of so many other species. Embrace the singularity!