Daylight saving time maintains agricultural schedule despite urban reality
How temporal value systems persist despite contradicting the societies they supposedly serve
Debt counseling normalizes debt
How debt counseling services transform structural exploitation into personal responsibility while legitimizing permanent indebtedness as a normal life condition.
Nutrition serves industry
How nutritional science has been systematically captured to serve industrial rather than human needs
Organic creates premium markets
How the organic label transforms scarcity into luxury, creating artificial value hierarchies that serve capital rather than health.
Peer support extracts labor
How peer support networks function as disguised labor extraction systems
Safety advice blames victims
Safety advice systematically transfers responsibility from systems to individuals, making victims accountable for their own harm.
Successful aging models blame individuals for health problems
How 'successful aging' rhetoric shifts responsibility from systemic failures to personal inadequacy, creating a moral framework that blames the elderly for their own decline.