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Hello there. I'm Ed Zittron and welcome to Better Offline.

Better Offline. And you're on the second part of the business idiot trilogy and indeed that was a concept

i introduced you to last episode think of the business idiot as a kind of con artist except the

con has become the standard way of doing business for an alarmingly large part of society.

The business idiot is the manager that doesn't seem to do anything but keeps getting promoted,

and the CEO of a public company that says boring, specious nonsense about artificial intelligence.

They're the tenured professor that you wish would die,

the administrator whose only job appears to be opening and closing their laptop,

and the consultant

that can come up with a million reasons to charge you more money, yet not one metric to

judge their success by. Also, the marketing executive that's worked exactly three years at every

major cloud player, but does not appear to have done anything. And of course, the investor that

invests based on founders, but really means guys that look and sound exactly like me. These people are present throughout the private and public sector and our governments too,

and they paradoxically do nothing of substance, but somehow damage everything that they touch.

This isn't to say our public and private sector is entirely useless,

just that these people are poisoned so many parts of our power structure that avoiding them is entirely impossible. Our economy is oriented

around them, made easier and more illogical for their benefit, because their literal only goal in

life has been to take and use power and help others who feel the same. The business idiot is also

an authoritarian and will do whatever they need to, including harming the institution that they

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