I'm pretty sure I requested this from the library because it was referred to in "Less is More", and I think it works well to provide a more detailed historical background to that book, with the degrowth economics/politics stripped out. Suffers a little bit from the framing as capitalism has to be explained in terms of the cheapness of seven things, and that feels more natural in some chapters than others. The conclusion didn't really work for me, but if you skip that, it probably works pretty well as a "this is how capitalism has created the conditions for its dominance" book.