JeremyAbram.net Series
A multi-book series exposing how modern industries shape choices, harvest data, and quietly transfer risk to the people they call “customers.”
Every industry has consumers. Every industry has incentives. And in the technology-driven economy, those incentives are increasingly optimized for retention, extraction, and automation — not for your clarity, privacy, or long-term well-being.
The Informed Consumer™ is built to restore visibility. Not outrage. Not paranoia. Visibility — plus practical, employable ways to reduce personal and family exposure.
What This Series Is (and Isn’t)
This series is:
- Structured, organized, and scenario-driven
- Focused on incentives, business models, and behavioral leverage
- Practical: audits, checklists, scripts, and “what to do next” steps
- Written for real people living in real systems
This series is not:
- Conspiracy theory content
- Anti-industry propaganda
- Hysteria, fear loops, or rage marketing
- “Just delete everything and move to the woods” advice
The Series Framework (Same Lens in Every Book)
Every volume follows the same disciplined architecture so you always know what you’re getting:
- The Industry Machine — how it really makes money
- Where Consumers Lose — the predictable risk transfer points
- Real-World Scenarios — families, workers, students, retirees, business owners
- Defensive Framework — audits, questions, negotiation, containment
- The Future of Risk — AI, automation, consolidation, next-wave tactics
The goal is simple: move you from participation by default to participation by design.
Planned Volumes
This is a long-running series built to cover multiple consumer-facing markets. Titles may evolve, but the mission stays fixed.
Book One (in development):
The Informed Consumer™: Technology & Digital Services
How modern devices, apps, platforms, and subscriptions reshape behavior — and what to do about it.
Future volumes (projected):
- Financial Services (credit, loans, fees, scoring, fintech)
- Alcohol & Hospitality (marketing psychology, loyalty, liability, pricing)
- Healthcare & Prescription Systems (billing, networks, pharma incentives, data)
- Automotive (financing, warranties, repair steering, data-connected vehicles)
- E-Commerce & Marketplaces (ranking manipulation, policies, extraction models)
- Food & Grocery Systems (loyalty, shrinkflation, marketing, ultra-processed economics)
- Education & Credential Markets (loans, certification loops, fine print)
Who This Is For
- Anyone who suspects the “default settings” are not on their side
- Parents trying to protect children from modern digital and financial exposure
- Workers navigating surveillance, monitoring, and always-on culture
- Consumers who want clarity without panic
- People who prefer tools, not slogans
Get Updates
I’ll post progress notes, excerpts, and supporting tools on JeremyAbram.net as the series develops. If you want updates, use the contact form and put “Informed Consumer Updates” in the message.
Contact Prompt (copy/paste):
Please add me to Informed Consumer Updates. I’m most interested in: Technology / Finance / Healthcare / Alcohol / Automotive / E-Commerce / Food / Education.
Related Work
The Informed Consumer™ series connects with ongoing themes across my writing: privacy, consent illusion, behavioral economics, modern risk transfer, and the quiet costs of convenience.
If you’ve read my work on technology and human behavior, this series is the organized expansion — built as a long-term consumer education library.
