Marx believed technological advances are always making production more efficient, which in turn lowers costs and makes it more difficult for capitalists to maximize profit. Periodical crises can restore some degree of profitability by allowing successful corporations to absorb the resources of failing corporations. The problem, according to some theorists, is that recent government bailouts are preventing that process from fully unfolding.

Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, loc. 801