Anti-consumerism
It names the problem—but not how to fix it.
Economics
The attempt to model people, who decline to cooperate.
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Commodity fetishism
Capitalism doesn’t hide exploitation—it makes it look like gravity.
Creative destruction
Schumpeter stole Marx’s crisis engine and sold it as progress.
Degrowth
Degrowth names the problem—GDP obsession—but refuses to solve it within capitalism.
Historical materialism
Historical materialism isn’t history—it’s a lever to pry open power. Use it, but don’t mistake the handle for the engine.
Social capital
Social capital isn’t capital — it’s cooperation dressed up as an asset.
Symbolic capital
Prestige is not aura—it’s leverage with an expiry date.
Experience economy
It didn’t invent experience—it commodified memory, then billed it as progress.
Gift economy
The gift economy isn’t generous—it’s binding.
Invisible hand
Smith wrote 'an invisible hand' twice — not as doctrine, but as irony. Everything after is a misquotation.
Knowledge economy
The knowledge economy isn’t about what we know—it’s about who owns the right to decide what counts as knowledge.
Protestant work ethic
A 1905 theory that turned divine doubt into a productivity cult—and still judges your Sunday rest.
Sharing economy
It’s not about sharing. It’s about platform-mediated access—and the climate math that makes it stick.
Tragedy of the commons
Hardin’s 1968 essay didn’t discover a truth — it weaponised a pastoral metaphor to justify control.
The Wisdom of Crowds
Crowds are only wise when they’re structured like Galton’s ox-guessers—not like Twitter threads.