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This is Better Offline.

In the last episode, I know I know. We talked about something i talk about all the time the growing

shittiness of tech and how the media is kind of playing into it and the fact that all of this is

caused by the rot economy which is the growth at all cost mindset that means everything must grow

revenue engagement time on app everything at all, at all costs, at all times,

and how, well, the things you change to make growth happen, they're pretty terrible, and they

hit you everywhere, and they hit you in manifest ways, manifold ways, and ways that just fill you

full of little poisons every day, and it's these little things that are

mostly overlooked, mostly by the media.

See, the modern tech clash narrative pushed by the media hasn't been focused on anything

other than big, meaty problems, like Meta's Cambridge Analytica scandal while ignoring

...