The Fauji Industrial Complex (FIC) refers to the Pakistan military’s expansive and controversial business empire, encompassing industries such as real estate, manufacturing, and energy. Critics argue this vast commercial network blurs the line between military and civilian spheres, concentrating economic power within the military, reducing transparency, and undermining democratic governance by allowing the military to exert substantial influence over Pakistan’s economy and policies.
Many believe the Fauji Industrial Complex (FIC) distorts Pakistan’s economy by allowing the military to control major industries, limiting fair competition and civilian oversight.
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Offworld Industries Example: A fully realized Offworld Industry chain might look like: Robots on Ceres mine water ice and metals -> This is processed at a Lagrange point factory into fuel and structural components -> These components are used to build massive solar power satellites in orbit -> The energy is beamed to a growing Mars colony, which uses it to power its own local industries. It's a self-fueling economic engine beyond Earth.
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A critical term for the modern system where facts and data are no longer neutral discoveries but mass-produced commodities. In this "industry," evidence is generated, packaged, and marketed to serve pre-determined political agendas, corporate interests, or ideological conclusions. Think of it as a factory where the desired product (a specific narrative) is designed first, and the raw materials (studies, statistics, expert testimony) are then selectively manufactured or sourced to fit. It turns truth-seeking into a supply-chain management problem for power.
Evidence Industry Example: During a major policy debate—like on climate change or public health—opposing think tanks, media conglomerates, and university labs funded by interested parties all churn out a flood of conflicting reports, charts, and "expert" opinions. This isn't an accident of science; it's the Evidence Industry at work. The public is left drowning in a sea of manufactured certainty, unable to find solid ground because every fact has a corporate or ideological barcode.
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Get the Evidence Industry mug.A sardonic label for the academic meta-enterprise of endlessly theorizing about knowledge itself. It points to the potential for scholarship in philosophy and social studies of science to become a self-referential, jargon-laden system focused more on internal debates, career-building, and generating complex theories than on clarifying how we know things in the practical world.
*Example: Writing a 400-page treatise deploying Epistemology Industry jargon to deconstruct the "socio-technical imaginaries of evidence-production" in a field you've never actually worked in, all to secure tenure, while a farmer's practical, life-saving knowledge of climate patterns is ignored because it wasn't produced within the industry.*
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Example: The Science Industry is visible when a university's research priorities subtly shift toward topics that attract big pharma grants, or when journals favor flashy, positive results that generate citations over crucial but mundane replication studies. It's science operating with the logic of a business, where knowledge is a commodity and impact factors are a currency.
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Get the Science Industry mug.The term coined by Sadagopan Singam refers to the self reinforcing ecosystem of research firms, consulting companies, analysts, and influencers that shape and often amplify corporate narratives - especially around emerging topics like GenAI, Digital Transformation,ESG and Innovation Strategy etc. It represents how these players mutually benefit from creating frameworks, maturity models, buzzwords, and “thought leadership” which companies feel compelled to adopt, often without sufficient diligence or grounding in real business impact!
The strategy industrial complex thrives on fear based messaging - if you are not on the latest trend, you are behind - creating a self sustaining demand for playbooks and advisory services!
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However, a lot of funeral homes are owned by large business corporations. These businesses aim to efficiently make money.
Functions and factors that help generate revenue include:
- A lack of information on how much funerals should cost, and what rights you have as a consumer.
- Selling preneed. This may be focused towards being sold to the elderly. Preneed may contain fine text designed to obligate ones family to pay specifically for the agreed upon services with possible limited flexibility, thus secure future revenue for the home.
- Casket rooms can be designed in such a way as to force families to view expensive, "good looking" or "fitting" caskets as opposed to more affordable, but less impressive ones, often in less desirable colors as to influence more desirable casket choices.
- Bundling services that make consumers feel like they are saving more by buying more.
- Subtle gestures such as saying (deceased's name) deserves more (perhaps a grander service or better casket or burial).
- Also note the significant psychological state of the consumer, who may be dealing with unbearabke grief.
See the 1978 FTC report on funeral homes, the research done by the funeral consumers alliance, and other resources and articles done on your local death industry. Of course, not every home is coporate or "greedy".
However, a lot of funeral homes are owned by large business corporations. These businesses aim to efficiently make money.
Functions and factors that help generate revenue include:
- A lack of information on how much funerals should cost, and what rights you have as a consumer.
- Selling preneed. This may be focused towards being sold to the elderly. Preneed may contain fine text designed to obligate ones family to pay specifically for the agreed upon services with possible limited flexibility, thus secure future revenue for the home.
- Casket rooms can be designed in such a way as to force families to view expensive, "good looking" or "fitting" caskets as opposed to more affordable, but less impressive ones, often in less desirable colors as to influence more desirable casket choices.
- Bundling services that make consumers feel like they are saving more by buying more.
- Subtle gestures such as saying (deceased's name) deserves more (perhaps a grander service or better casket or burial).
- Also note the significant psychological state of the consumer, who may be dealing with unbearabke grief.
See the 1978 FTC report on funeral homes, the research done by the funeral consumers alliance, and other resources and articles done on your local death industry. Of course, not every home is coporate or "greedy".
Guy1: Man, that funeral cost us a lot, hopefully we'll pay it off next year.
Guy2: Honestly, I wish we knew about how the funeral industry worked before we got into all this...
Guy2: Honestly, I wish we knew about how the funeral industry worked before we got into all this...
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