Recycling programs function as psychological pressure release valves that enable continued overproduction by managing consumer guilt rather than addressing systemic waste generation.
The humanitarian response system has evolved into a displacement management industry that perpetuates the conditions creating refugees while claiming to help them.
Regional planning mechanisms systematically organize resource flows from productive urban centers to subsidized suburban peripheries while maintaining the illusion of organic development.
How renewable energy certificates create an elaborate accounting fiction that allows corporations to maintain pollution while claiming environmental virtue
Rent control arguments focus on price mechanisms while avoiding the deeper question of who should control housing resources and why.
Rent control debates focus on price mechanisms while avoiding examination of the underlying ownership structures that create landlord-tenant relationships and enable rental extraction in the first place.
Maker spaces transform authentic repair culture into subscription services, converting community knowledge into commercial products while claiming to preserve traditional values.
How IRBs have evolved from subject protection mechanisms into institutional liability shields that prioritize organizational safety over research participant welfare.
How the cult of resilience transfers responsibility from systemic failures to personal inadequacy