The System Was Never Broken: How Bureaucracy, Finance, and Law Keep You Exhausted (And What to Do About It)
By Obadiah Switzer

You’re not overwhelmed by accident.
You’re overwhelmed because the systems around you were designed that way.

Every form you fill out, every phone call that leads to a dead end, every surprise charge or impossible deadline—it’s not random. It’s not inefficiency. It’s control.

This book exposes the core truth modern life tries to hide: the system isn’t failing. It’s functioning exactly as intended. Bureaucracy, finance, and law are not malfunctioning. They are engineered to extract your time, energy, and focus—while making you believe it’s your fault when things don’t work.

The System Was Never Broken is a hard reset. It peels back the curtain on the hidden architecture of modern exhaustion and gives you the structural tools to exit without asking permission.

If you've ever felt like no matter how responsible, organized, or “on top of things” you are, you’re still falling behind—this is the book that will finally explain why. And more importantly, it will show you what to do about it.

Inside, you'll uncover:

✅ How complexity is used as a form of control — and why modern institutions make things hard on purpose
✅ Why debt isn’t just financial, but behavioral — and how credit scores quietly shape your life decisions
✅ How the legal system flips innocence into guilt — turning every misstep into a violation, regardless of intent
✅ Why modern democracy is more ritual than power — and how simulated input replaces real influence
✅ How language is redefined to neutralize opposition — making you question yourself before you ever resist

But this book doesn’t just diagnose the problem. It gives you a way out.

You’ll learn actionable protocols to:
– Collapse unnecessary friction from your life
– Rebuild your environment as a tool, not a trap
– Install sovereign systems for decision-making, education, and finance
– Shift from reactive compliance to active autonomy
– Exit quietly, without waiting for permission or revolt

This is not self-help. This is system override.

You won’t find vague motivational fluff or recycled productivity tips. You’ll find a blueprint for cognitive clarity, strategic disengagement, and structural realignment—built for people who are tired of being drained by a world that refuses to serve them.

If you’re a high-functioning thinker trapped in low-functioning systems…
If you’ve mastered surviving the day-to-day but are done mistaking maintenance for progress…
If you’re ready to stop fixing yourself and start designing your way out…

This book is your manual.