Farm-to-table serves affluent
How the farm-to-table movement transforms agricultural nostalgia into premium class signaling while obscuring systemic food inequality
Infrastructure follows speculation
The material world reshapes itself around imaginary futures, making speculation the primary force of physical reality construction.
Infrastructure priorities reflect wealth
Infrastructure investment patterns reveal society's true value hierarchy, not stated public priorities.
Intergenerational equity pits groups
How the rhetoric of intergenerational fairness becomes a weapon for group conflict rather than justice
Investment advice loses money
The financial advice industry exists to extract value from investors, not create it. Understanding this structural reality is essential for anyone trying to build wealth.
Mental health pathologizes responses
The mental health industry transforms rational responses to irrational systems into individual pathologies, obscuring systemic dysfunction while creating profitable treatment markets.
Representation substitutes inclusion
How institutions use symbolic representation to avoid genuine structural inclusion while maintaining existing power distributions.
Self-defense individualizes responses
How self-defense ideology transforms systemic problems into individual responsibility, fragmenting collective response capabilities.