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CallZone Media. Hello and welcome to Better Offline. I'm your host, Ed Zittron.

Better Offline.

And, you know, sometimes recording this show kind of feels like narrating the end of the world.

I'm watching as the growth at all costs right economy, it kind of poisons every corner of our digital lives,

changing everything in search of growth, growth of revenue, growth, of engagement metrics, growth of anything.

And my core frustration isn't just how

shitty things have got, but how said shittiness has become insanely profitable for so many companies.

Meta made $20.8 billion of profit in its last reported quarterly earnings off the back of

products that are bordering on non-functional. Microsoft made $24.11 billion in profit with an increasingly deteriorating series of productivity

products and cloud-based solutions that its customers absolutely fucking hate.

And Google made $26.5 billion in profit from multiple monopolies and making its core search

product worse as a means of increasing the amount of times that people

search for stuff. You see, the business of making our shit worse to increase revenue growth

year over year, it's absolutely booming. The products you use every day are more confusing and more

...