I understand why nobody kind of wants to say, hey, do we have a sociopathy problem?

Because it's a big fucking can of worms, but yes, yes, you do.

Hello. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us. I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this week my guest is Ed Zittran.

Ed is the CEO of EZPR, and he writes the Where's Your Ed at Newsletter?

Now, I've been enjoying Ed's writing and commentary on the tech

industry for quite a while on a whole range of topics, but particularly on cryptocurrency

and on the failings of at least parts of the tech media. I've been wanting to have Ed on

the show for a while, and I think the discussion that we have is a really wide-ranging and

cathartic one.

We start with this incident last week where a listener of Karas Swisher and Scott Galloway's

podcast Pivot asked why they were running an ad for a company that was telling people to put

their retirement savings into crypto.

And that kicked off a whole larger conversation about the responsibility that journalists,

and particularly these journalists who are incredibly prominent and powerful within the tech media

when it comes to their readers and their listeners, and whether they should be more willing

to call out tech companies and products like those being

put forward by the cryptocurrency industry that are exploitative and that are scams, particularly in

this case. And we use that as a jumping off point to get into a whole range of issues around the

tech media, around the tech industry itself, around cryptocurrency.

And we end with a discussion of this larger question of the work from home debate.

You may have seen recently that Elon Musk has been saying that his workers at Tesla need to

work from the office or they will lose their jobs.

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