Someone else decides what your life is worth
The systematic mechanisms through which external entities determine individual human value, from insurance actuaries to algorithmic systems.
Taste democracy always loses to expert tyranny
How expertise systematically dismantles collective preference formation in favor of curated value hierarchies
Tech companies control what you think matters
How algorithmic curation has replaced human judgment in determining what deserves our attention, care, and consideration.
Value relativism serves authoritarian purposes
The philosophical claim that all values are equally valid functions as a sophisticated tool for dismantling resistance to systematic oppression.
Value systems are just social control mechanisms
Every moral framework, aesthetic preference, and cultural norm functions as a sophisticated apparatus for managing human behavior. Values don't emerge naturally—they're engineered.
We mistake price for value in everything
How market pricing mechanisms systematically corrupt our understanding of true worth, creating a civilization that confuses cost with meaning.
Work ethic mythology justifies wage theft
How the Protestant work ethic became capitalism's most effective propaganda tool for normalizing systematic underpayment
Gig Economy Destroys Worker Protections Through Classification Manipulation
How deliberate misclassification of workers as independent contractors systematically dismantles labor protections while maximizing corporate profit extraction.