> Dan Davies wrote a whole book on this topic, The Unaccountability Machine [1]. In it, he creates the concept of "accountability sinks": organisational structures or systems which abstract the source of a decision away from individuals so that no specific person can be held accountable.

The market itself seems to be the epitome of an accountability sink. All kinds of terrible things are done in the name of responding to market incentives, and when someone complains about those things, there's always some guy who points the blame at you the consumer with some BS about "revealed preferences" or the like.