Jünger dispels the progressive illusions of technology as the universal breadwinner and creator of endless consumer goods. In the paradoxical vision of the thinker, technology does not multiply wealth, but creates an eternal shortage. However, the limited and exhaustible resources of the earth and man himself set a limit to the development of technical civilization, the improvement of technology and give hope that in the midst of general impoverishment and desolation it is possible to abandon the consuming way of being in favor of a truly creative one.