Ed Zitron

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I also think that there is, and I do think there is a deeply cynical thing here.

Well, let me reframe that.

I think that people have to find ways to rationalize capitalism.

I think that the only way that they could, the amount of times I hear a week of, it's just like Amazon Web Services, just like Uber, it's just like this.

I have restated that point a hundred times.

People sometimes listen, people sometimes don't.

But...

People need to find a way, I think, to rationalize the massive expenditures, and the current products do not provide that rationalization.

Nothing about ChatGPT or Claude or ClaudeCode or Fable or whatever actually rationalizes this.

A trillion dollars is too much money for anything outside of universal healthcare and housing.

In fact, probably could have taken care of that really easily.

But nevertheless...

People see that and they don't want to deal with the natural kind of dissonance they get, which is, wow, are all the companies run by people who don't know what's going on?

And the answer is yes.

Like, I don't think that there's actually a grand conspiracy.

Oh, my God, the emails I get every week, people being like, it's surveillance.

It's a secret surveillance state.

It's secret.