@techreport{9ckuhg,
  author = {Gilly, Travis},
  title = {{The Corporate Villainy of Tom Sawyer: Manufactured Scarcity, the Ethics of Attention, and the Literary Prehistory of Dark Patterns}},
  institution = {Real Safety AI Foundation},
  type = {Working Paper},
  year = {2026},
  month = jun,
  note = {Version 1},
  url = {https://realsafetyai.org/research/9ckuhg/},
  keywords = {philosophy of technology, ethics of attention, persuasive design, dark patterns, gamification, manufactured scarcity, behavioral economics, Mark Twain}
}