- **Advertising & marketing** — arguably the most institutionalized form of persuasion-that-shades-into-deception. Attention is manufactured; needs are invented.
- **Financial engineering** — complexity itself can function as concealment (the 2008 mortgage-backed securities crisis is the canonical example: risk hidden inside opacity).
- **Planned obsolescence & "shrinkflation"** — products designed to fail or quietly shrink while price holds.
- **Attention/data economy** — "free" platforms where *you* are the product, and the true cost is obscured.