Sustainable products command premium prices for basic responsibility
The sustainability premium turns basic environmental and social responsibility into luxury goods, making ethical behavior a privilege of economic status.
Territorial sovereignty enables resource extraction through legal mechanisms
How legal frameworks of territorial control systematically convert natural resources into extractable commodities through legitimized violence.
Therapy culture individualizes social problems through personal healing
Therapy culture transforms structural inequalities into individual psychological problems, creating profitable treatment industries while preserving the systems that generate suffering.
Transit policing criminalizes poverty in public spaces
Transit enforcement systems convert economic inequality into criminal behavior, making poverty itself illegal in the last remaining public spaces.
Transportation demand management blames individuals for systemic problems
Transportation demand management transforms infrastructure failures into personal choices, making individuals responsible for problems created by decades of car-centric development.
Transportation equity initiatives manage inequality rather than eliminating it
Transportation equity programs create managed tiers of access that legitimize continued inequality while preventing systemic transformation.
Trauma bonding terminology pathologizes normal human attachment
The clinical appropriation of 'trauma bonding' transforms ordinary human attachment patterns into pathological categories, serving institutional control over intimate relationships.
Trauma-informed care becomes institutional compliance theater
How genuine trauma understanding gets transformed into checkbox bureaucracy that serves institutions rather than patients