IF YOU'RE READING THIS
You're Already Compliant
Welcome to the System
Congratulations. Your curiosity got the best of you. You’ve stumbled into the heart of Mandatory Goods, a storytelling engine disguised as a publishing company.
We don’t sell products, we sell participation. You don’t just buy a book from us, you enter a world, a thought experiment, a narrative designed to challenge the systems you’ve been trained to comply with.
Mandatory Goods isn’t a brand. It’s a signal. An invitation to deconstruct the structures that shape your reality while deciding if you’re brave enough to challenge your own compliance.
We create stories that bleed into real life and real life that feels like a story. You’re part of the experiment now.
The only question is… do you know the rules?
What We Stand For
We believe that stories are more than just words on a page. They are cultural blueprints. Our mission is to weaponize storytelling to challenge consumer culture, corporate absurdity, and the illusion of optimization.
We don’t tell you what to believe. Instead, we create frameworks of thought that make you question why you believe anything at all. Our goal is not to change your mind but to sharpen it.