They Always Want More

Most systems are built on invisible extraction.

Somebody absorbs the cost so somebody else can remain comfortable.

Women absorbing emotional labour inside relationships. Workers absorbing instability while executives call it optimisation. Communities absorbing collapse while billionaires call it innovation. Audiences absorbing recycled culture while corporations strip-mine nostalgia for profit. People absorbing increasingly inhuman systems while being told to adapt faster.

The language changes. The mechanism doesn't.

These essays are about the systems underneath things people keep pretending are personal failures.

If you've ever felt like modern life is extracting more from people while offering less back — you're probably seeing the same pattern I am.