Better Offline

How Shareholders Are Destroying The Tech Industry

The shareholder supremacy has eaten the tech industry, driving private and public companies to chase unprofitable, unsustainable ideas like generative AI as a means of expressing eternal growth to the markets. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how this destructive mindset has created an entirely new kind of manager - one disconnected from labor and creation - and how the dark hand of shareholder supremacy is behind everything strange and bad in tech in the last few years LINKS: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks">https://tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks </a> Newsletter: wheresyoured.at Reddit: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline">http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline </a> Discord chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials - <a href="http://www.twitter.com/edzitron">http://www.twitter.com/edzitron</a> <a href="instagram.com/edzitron">instagram.com/edzitron</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social</a> <a href="https://www.threads.net/@edzitron ">https://www.threads.net/@edzitron </a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. 
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.