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In the last episode, I walked you through how the so-called sudden megification of meta is really just them formalizing the rot economy.

The growth at all cost bullshit that drives the entire company, making the products worse to grab more advertising impressions, to make Mark Zuckerberg richer,

while also making the life of the average Facebook user that bit worse.

And I believe that had Metter and Mark Zuckerberg been ever really held accountable,

truly accountable in the last decade, that things might have gone a little differently.

Zuckerberg, like many tech executives,

has been allowed to destroy the user experience in broad daylight because the media, despite writing about Facebook as a product all the time for years,

doesn't seem capable of writing the blunt truth about how shit it is,

how bad it works, how everything is kind of getting there,

but nowhere worse than Facebook, really.

The problem, I believe,

is there are some people that simply want the tech executives to have power. They want to make friends with the rock stars, they want to be in their orbit, to humor their ideas and celebrate

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