This causes economic life to be dependent on technology, since, as described earlier, technologies purpose is to make life easier. This dependency on technology has one large effect. Technology creates a socioeconomic difference among humans. Only those who can afford to implement the technologycan use it. This effect in turn creates another.
Technological advancement leads to concentration.
These larger corporations engulf smaller companies to eventually form even biger conglomerates, controlled by a powerful few. According to Ellul, the State only adopts techniques when it finds them already functioning. So in order not to have a risk of failure, the State needs a guarantee before it will adopt new techniques. This works to the State's benefit. Because the State knows the technique works, and knows how to implement it, the increase in techniques empowers the State.