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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- Know Yourself Programme: knowyourself.makeitconscious.com

📚 Additional Resources:

- The Dialectics of Shadow (Article): makeitconscious.com/the-dialectics-of-shadow/

- Tarot Birth Chart Reports: makeitconscious.com/step/tarot-birth-chart-reports

- Why Divination is Real article series: makeitconscious.com/why-divination-is-real

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- MiC Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa

- Inner Work Exercises: open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs

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This episode examines the "post-moral scammer" - those who deliberately mislead customers through dark patterns and deceptive practices that attempt to stay barely within legal bounds. This phenomenon is reaching a crescendo in our modern economy.

When you encounter such deception - whether as a customer or participant - it reveals where your own freedom is obstructed. Your struggles with these dynamics reflect contradictions in your own mind that need resolving.

Key topics covered:

- What defines a "post-moral scammer" vs traditional scammers

- Why this phenomenon is reaching a peak in Western business culture

- The psychological cost of operating a livelihood with split intentions

- How to recognise these patterns in your own work and consumption

- Why this approach to business is ultimately unsustainable

- The relationship between individual integrity and economic systems

This episode sits within our broader examination of The Future of Work. If you're struggling to make ends meet materially, there's something about yourself you're not yet seeing - and the same applies to how you participate in economic systems that may be fundamentally misaligned.

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

🎓 Go Deeper:

- Seven Habits of Individuation Ebook: makeitconscious.com/sevenhabits

- Shadow Mapping Sessions: makeitconscious.com/step/shadow-mapping

- Know Yourself Programme: knowyourself.makeitconscious.com

📚 Additional Resources:

- The Dialectics of Shadow (Article): makeitconscious.com/the-dialectics-of-shadow/

- Tarot Birth Chart Reports: makeitconscious.com/step/tarot-birth-chart-reports

- Why Divination is Real article series: makeitconscious.com/why-divination-is-real

🎧 Podcasts:

- MiC Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa

- Inner Work Exercises: open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs

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In this episode of The Future of Work series, we explore the other side of conscious contribution - how to actually meet the needs of the world whilst maintaining your authenticity and self-knowledge.

Building on the previous episode about knowing your unique facts, this episode focuses on the practical reality of serving others and understanding market dynamics through the Make it Conscious psychological framework.

Key topics covered:

- Why it's easier to meet demand than create it (and the limitations of this approach)

- The difference between meeting genuine needs vs. exploiting demand

- How to approach work as both contribution and spiritual practice

- Understanding your role in the economic system whilst avoiding self-contradiction

- Practical exercises for discovering what you can contribute

- The importance of quality, quantity, and direction in any endeavour

- Why jobs are means, not ends - and what this means for your career

This episode covers the second side of the career dialectic from Habit 4 of the Seven Habits of Individuation: meeting the needs of the world. The previous episode explored knowing your unique set of facts. The goal is to synthesise both sides - your authentic gifts and the world's genuine needs - rather than becoming either a starving artist or a corporate wage slave.

Whether you're starting a business, considering a career change, or questioning your current work situation, this episode provides a framework for approaching contribution from a place of consciousness rather than mere opportunism.

🎓 Go Deeper:

- Seven Habits of Individuation Ebook: makeitconscious.com/sevenhabits

- Shadow Mapping Sessions: makeitconscious.com/step/shadow-mapping

- Know Yourself Programme: knowyourself.makeitconscious.com

📚 Additional Resources:

- The Dialectics of Shadow (Article): makeitconscious.com/the-dialectics-of-shadow/

- Tarot Birth Chart Reports: makeitconscious.com/step/tarot-birth-chart-reports

- Why Divination is Real article series: makeitconscious.com/why-divination-is-real

🎧 Podcasts:

- MiC Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa

- Inner Work Exercises: open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs

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