orphan-crushing machine

Etymology
From a Twitter post by @pookleblinky on September 25, 2020: "'Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like 'he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine' and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.'"

Noun

 * 1)  A notional machine representing a system or process that obviously facilitates suffering but is not acknowledged or examined, or for which no alternative is considered.