This episode explores how commercial deception has become pervasive and normalised in modern business culture, reaching what appears to be a crescendo. Building on the previous episode about the Post-Moral Scammer, we examine the dark patterns and manipulative practices that have become increasingly common in business, and why this approach to commerce is ultimately unsustainable.

Key themes explored:

- How deception has moved from individual bad actors to systemic business practice

- The psychological cost of normalising commercial dishonesty in your work life

- Why "dark patterns" and false scarcity tactics are common online

- The relationship between metrics obsession (like GDP) and ethical decay

- How hybrid working mandates reveal power dynamics over win-win collaboration

- Why organisations should want employees doing their inner work, not resisting it

- How your encounters with commercial deception reveal your own contradictions

This episode sits within the broader Future of Work series, examining how individual self-knowledge connects to organisational transformation. When you encounter these systemic issues, they point to aspects of yourself that need integration.

The future of work isn't the same as the future of you - but both require facing uncomfortable truths about how we've organised our economic systems and our participation in them.

Read the companion essay: The Post-Moral Scammer at makeitconscious.com/the-post-moral-scammer/

Marie Louise Von Franz - Women Who Play Up The Anima, on Individuation Portal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZhFt7TNBAw&ab_channel=IndividuationPortal

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