Personal safety advice blames victims while ignoring systemic violence
How personal safety discourse shifts responsibility from violent systems to individual behavior modification
Personality tests create false scientific basis for employment discrimination
How personality assessments legitimize workplace bias through manufactured psychological authority
Pharmaceutical companies create diseases to sell cures
How the pharmaceutical industry manufactures medical conditions to expand markets and redefine human normalcy as pathology.
Philosophical debates distract from material conditions
How abstract philosophical discourse serves to deflect attention from concrete power relations and economic realities.
Planned obsolescence drives consumption through artificial scarcity
Planned obsolescence manufactures scarcity in a world of abundance to sustain consumption-dependent economic systems.
Prison reform maintains incarceration system through humane rhetoric
Prison reform movements strengthen the carceral system by providing moral legitimacy for continued mass incarceration through incremental improvements.
Professional communication training teaches class-based speech patterns as universal skills
How corporate communication training disguises upper-class linguistic markers as objective professional skills, creating systematic exclusion while claiming meritocracy.
Professional ethics codes protect professions rather than public
Ethics codes function as regulatory capture mechanisms that shield professional classes from external accountability while maintaining the illusion of moral oversight.
Prosperity theology justifies wealth inequality through divine blessing
How prosperity theology transforms systemic inequality into divine validation, creating moral justification for economic exploitation.