Work-life balance accepts
The phrase 'work-life balance' presupposes that work and life are fundamentally separate domains, each with legitimate claims on your existence. This framing is not neutral—it's a capitulation.
Workplace culture masks
How corporate culture rhetoric conceals the true value extraction mechanisms operating within organizations
Zoning maintains segregation
How municipal planning law creates and preserves racial and economic segregation through seemingly neutral regulations
Academic philosophy serves elite interests through intellectual gatekeeping
How institutional philosophy functions as a sophisticated class barrier disguised as intellectual rigor
Accessibility compliance becomes minimum standard rather than genuine inclusion
Accessibility compliance frameworks transform inclusion into checkbox exercises that satisfy legal requirements while maintaining exclusionary design practices.
Accessory dwelling units enable speculation while promising affordability
ADU policies marketed as affordable housing solutions actually create new mechanisms for property value extraction and neighborhood transformation.
Activism gets professionalized to neutralize grassroots organizing
How institutional capture transforms authentic resistance into managed opposition through bureaucratic absorption and credentialing systems.
Advance directives reduce complex values to simplified legal documents
How legal frameworks compress the infinite complexity of human values about life, death, and dignity into checkbox documents that serve institutional needs more than individual autonomy.
Affordable housing programs subsidize developers while claiming social benefit
Affordable housing policies function primarily as wealth transfer mechanisms to developers, using social justice rhetoric to obscure upward redistribution.
Age discrimination protection creates token inclusion while maintaining ageism
How legal protections against age discrimination serve as sophisticated mechanisms to legitimize and perpetuate the very ageism they claim to eliminate.