Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need.

" In 1956 at the age of 30 he was appointed as the vice rector of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico "a position he managed to keep for several years before getting thrown out—Illich was just a little too loud in his criticism of the Vatican’s pronouncements on birth control and comparatively demure silence about the bomb. 1951. 1982.

Ivan Illich (pron. : /ɪˈvɑːn ˈɪlɪtʃ/; 4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian philosopher Roman Catholic priest and "maverick social critic" of the institutions of contemporary Western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education medicine work energy use transportation and economic development.