Traffic enforcement punishes poverty
Traffic fines operate as regressive taxation disguised as public safety, creating a two-tier justice system where wealth determines legal outcomes.
Wellness sells optimization
The wellness industry transforms human flourishing into measurable metrics, selling optimization as self-care while extracting value from your desire to feel better.
Activism gets professionalized
How the transformation of activism into a professional career destroys its fundamental value proposition
Advocacy maintains systems
How advocacy movements preserve the very systems they claim to challenge by legitimizing reform over transformation
Art commodifies culture
How artistic institutions transform living culture into tradeable assets, creating scarcity where abundance once existed.
Budgeting apps surveil
Personal finance apps don't manage your money. They manage you.
Change management prevents
How change management has become the primary mechanism for preventing meaningful organizational transformation
Citizenship ceremonies perform
How citizenship ceremonies manufacture belonging through theatrical value assignment