Universal design benefits everyone while hiding disability-specific needs
Universal design's 'benefits everyone' rhetoric obscures disability-specific needs while making accessibility politically palatable to non-disabled majorities.
University degrees function as class reproduction mechanisms
Higher education systems don't democratize opportunity—they legitimize existing hierarchies while pretending to offer meritocratic advancement.
Utilitarian calculus reduces human dignity to mathematical optimization
How the greatest good for the greatest number becomes a machine for grinding individual worth into aggregate statistics.
Victim rights discourse justifies expanded punishment apparatus
Victim rights rhetoric provides moral legitimacy for expanding punitive systems while obscuring how these systems often harm the very victims they claim to serve.
Waste management industry profits from disposal rather than prevention
The waste management industry's business model depends on waste generation continuing, creating structural resistance to actual waste reduction solutions.
Wellness apps gamify mental health while collecting intimate data
Mental health apps transform emotional states into data commodities while using game mechanics to maintain user engagement and dependency.
Wellness culture sells self-optimization as emotional health
Wellness culture transforms emotional well-being into performance metrics, replacing genuine healing with productivity-focused self-optimization systems.
Workplace safety regulations protect employers from liability more than workers from harm
How safety compliance systems shield corporations from responsibility while maintaining the illusion of worker protection