Ed Zitron

Simultaneously, businesses have spent several years telling workers they're asking for too much and doing too little, telling people a few years ago they were quiet quitting, which is a fucking stupid term that just means going to your job and doing the thing you're paying to do. Anyway, anyway. And a year later, in 2023, they insisted that the years of remote work

Simultaneously, businesses have spent several years telling workers they're asking for too much and doing too little, telling people a few years ago they were quiet quitting, which is a fucking stupid term that just means going to your job and doing the thing you're paying to do. Anyway, anyway. And a year later, in 2023, they insisted that the years of remote work

were actually bad because profits didn't reach the same profit levels of 2021, which was something to do with remote work. Now, did anyone actually prove this? Did anyone actually go and... No, they didn't. They just, well, they just listened to Mark Benioff, who's one of the more evil people alive.

were actually bad because profits didn't reach the same profit levels of 2021, which was something to do with remote work. Now, did anyone actually prove this? Did anyone actually go and... No, they didn't. They just, well, they just listened to Mark Benioff, who's one of the more evil people alive.

were actually bad because profits didn't reach the same profit levels of 2021, which was something to do with remote work. Now, did anyone actually prove this? Did anyone actually go and... No, they didn't. They just, well, they just listened to Mark Benioff, who's one of the more evil people alive.

Now, I also think a lot of these problems come to 2021, a year that we really need to dig into more. We might not do so today, but we will in the future.

Now, I also think a lot of these problems come to 2021, a year that we really need to dig into more. We might not do so today, but we will in the future.

Now, I also think a lot of these problems come to 2021, a year that we really need to dig into more. We might not do so today, but we will in the future.

But one of the big things that punished workers and led to so many layoffs in 2023 was the fact that we couldn't get back to the post-lockdown boom of 2021, when everyone bought everything always as they left the house for the first time in a while. Now, any corporation would be smart enough to know that that was a phase, that that was not going to be forever, except...

But one of the big things that punished workers and led to so many layoffs in 2023 was the fact that we couldn't get back to the post-lockdown boom of 2021, when everyone bought everything always as they left the house for the first time in a while. Now, any corporation would be smart enough to know that that was a phase, that that was not going to be forever, except...

But one of the big things that punished workers and led to so many layoffs in 2023 was the fact that we couldn't get back to the post-lockdown boom of 2021, when everyone bought everything always as they left the house for the first time in a while. Now, any corporation would be smart enough to know that that was a phase, that that was not going to be forever, except...

Every single big company seemed to make the same mistake and say, number going up forever, line go up forever. When it didn't, well, they started punishing workers and they started thinking, well, could it be that we as companies, we set unrealistic expectations for the markets and we just thought that we'd keep growing forever? Or maybe it was the people using the computer at home.

Every single big company seemed to make the same mistake and say, number going up forever, line go up forever. When it didn't, well, they started punishing workers and they started thinking, well, could it be that we as companies, we set unrealistic expectations for the markets and we just thought that we'd keep growing forever? Or maybe it was the people using the computer at home.

Every single big company seemed to make the same mistake and say, number going up forever, line go up forever. When it didn't, well, they started punishing workers and they started thinking, well, could it be that we as companies, we set unrealistic expectations for the markets and we just thought that we'd keep growing forever? Or maybe it was the people using the computer at home.

Yeah, that seems way better. Yeah. Anyway, while the majority of people don't work remotely, from talking to the people I know outside of tech or business, there's this genuine sense that the media has allied itself with the bosses. And I imagine it's because of the many articles that literally call workers lazy and have done so for years. Yet when it comes to the powerful...

Yeah, that seems way better. Yeah. Anyway, while the majority of people don't work remotely, from talking to the people I know outside of tech or business, there's this genuine sense that the media has allied itself with the bosses. And I imagine it's because of the many articles that literally call workers lazy and have done so for years. Yet when it comes to the powerful...

Yeah, that seems way better. Yeah. Anyway, while the majority of people don't work remotely, from talking to the people I know outside of tech or business, there's this genuine sense that the media has allied itself with the bosses. And I imagine it's because of the many articles that literally call workers lazy and have done so for years. Yet when it comes to the powerful...

Legacy Media doesn't seem to have that much piss and vinegar. They just have much more guarded critiques. The appetite for shaming and finger-wagging, it's always directed at middle and working class workers, and seemingly disappears when a person has a three-character job title like CEO. It's fucking stupid, it's insulting, and yes, it's demoralizing for the average person.

Legacy Media doesn't seem to have that much piss and vinegar. They just have much more guarded critiques. The appetite for shaming and finger-wagging, it's always directed at middle and working class workers, and seemingly disappears when a person has a three-character job title like CEO. It's fucking stupid, it's insulting, and yes, it's demoralizing for the average person.

Legacy Media doesn't seem to have that much piss and vinegar. They just have much more guarded critiques. The appetite for shaming and finger-wagging, it's always directed at middle and working class workers, and seemingly disappears when a person has a three-character job title like CEO. It's fucking stupid, it's insulting, and yes, it's demoralizing for the average person.