Charity industry profits from perpetuating poverty
The structural incentives that transform poverty alleviation into poverty maintenance
Corporate culture consultants package exploitation as team building
How professional culture consultants transform labor extraction into motivational experiences through sophisticated value manipulation.
Cybersecurity profits fears
The cybersecurity industry has transformed genuine threats into profitable fear products, creating a self-perpetuating cycle where security anxiety becomes more valuable than actual security.
Drone warfare makes killing psychologically easier for operators
How technological mediation transforms the moral weight of lethal action through psychological distancing mechanisms
Emotional intelligence training teaches workplace manipulation as social skill
How corporate EQ programs systematically transform authentic human connection into calculated behavioral control mechanisms
Farmer markets exclude residents
How 'local' food markets systematically price out the very communities they claim to serve, revealing the class dynamics beneath sustainable consumption rhetoric.
Financial literacy accepts exploitation
Financial literacy education teaches victims to optimize their own exploitation rather than questioning the systems that exploit them.
Financial literacy education teaches acceptance of exploitative systems
How financial education programs condition individuals to accept rather than challenge predatory economic structures
Fitness tracking devices gamify health while collecting intimate data
How fitness trackers transform health into points while harvesting biometric surveillance data for profit