„Some social scientists have a term — “reification” — for the process by which the effects of a political arrangement of power and resources start to seem like objective, inevitable facts about the world. Reification swaps out a political problem for a scientific or technical one; It’s how, for example, the effects of unregulated tech oligopolies become ’social media addiction,‘ how climate catastrophe caused by corporate greed becomes a ‚heat wave‘–and, by the way, how the effect of struggles between labor and corporations combines with high energy prices to become ‚inflation.“
