When this privileged access is threatened, according to Freudenburg, organized producers use distraction through "privileged accounts” – the repetition of largely unchallenged stories and beliefs that divert attention away from the unequal patterns of resource use. These privileged accounts ultimately get repeated so often that they ultimately become “embedded” within our language and thought. If the opposition still refuses to stay silent and challenges them on their inequitable effects on the environment, they engage in a disappearing act, where they do not “respond” as to why their company has the right to profit off public goods, but instead point to the benefits that the populace supposedly receives. As a result, when laws and policies are created, organized interests can expect to receive tangible rewards from the political system, while the remainder of the citizenry can expect to receive mainly symbolic rewards in the form of rhetoric.
