Self-care ideology shifts responsibility from society to individuals
Self-care culture transforms systemic failures into personal failings, converting collective problems into individual consumer choices.
Self-defense training individualizes responses to collective threats
How personal safety training serves as a mechanism to redirect attention from systemic violence to individual preparedness, effectively neutralizing collective responses to structural threats.
Sexual liberation movements get commercialized through sex industry expansion
How authentic sexual liberation transforms into profit-driven commodification, revealing the structural capture of progressive values by market forces.
Sharing economy concentrates ownership while claiming democratization
The sharing economy promises democratized access while actually concentrating ownership and control in platform monopolies that extract value from distributed labor.
Skills-based immigration cherry-picks global talent while draining origin countries
Skills-based immigration policies extract human capital from developing countries while framing this extraction as merit-based fairness and global mobility freedom.
Smart grids enable surveillance while promising efficiency
The smart grid revolution masks the construction of the most comprehensive domestic surveillance infrastructure in human history.
Smart growth policies concentrate wealth while claiming sustainability
How sustainable development rhetoric masks systematic wealth extraction through urban planning policies
Smart infrastructure enables surveillance while promising efficiency
Smart city technology creates comprehensive monitoring systems under the banner of optimization, fundamentally restructuring the relationship between citizens and space.
Spiritual entrepreneurship transforms sacred practices into business opportunities
How the wellness industry systematically converts spiritual practices into profit centers, fundamentally altering their nature and accessibility.