#roteconomy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #roteconomy, aggregated by home.social.
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“AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. Same greed that moved factories to Bangladesh and keeps slaves in cobalt mines in the Congo. It just wears a new mask now.”
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The AI griftosphere is starting to show its ass. Good. May that hasten its overdue demise.
Latest from @Zitron
from 03/24/2026:
"The AI Industry is Lying to You"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/ -
A useful listen, well put, and reason elebenty billion to boycott Amazon (amongst others) :)
#tech #monopoly #extraction #extortion #degeneration #roteconomy #enshittification
https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/factually-with-adam-conover/id1463460577?i=1000750283543
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Oh hey look, Some More News did an episode on the topic that makes everyone hate talking with me for more than five minutes. Of course, they do it much better, and it can basically be summed up by this one line in the video: "Everyone laundering human suffering so the end-user can shelter themselves in plausible deniability."
That's the problem, though. This is all propped up by willful ignorance, and I have a hard time imagining enough people will take the blinders off to make a difference.
Even when I hung with IWW folks, people would still talk about their Amazon orders, like there's no alternative. There is. you've just decided your immediate "need" was more important than the well-being of every other link in the chain of misery.
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I'm trying to figure a way out of printing and framing @pluralistic 's latest:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/#object-permanence
But maybe I have a better idea. The @eff could put together a Most Wanted deck of playing cards of the priests and enablers of #enshittification and the #roteconomy.
Please do, and then take my money!
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@theluddite
> do you think it explains just how much money they're willing to set on fire? And even then, what is it about AI that makes that connection?I'm convinced by Ed Zitron's thesis of the #RotEconomy:
A huge portion of financial activity, is based on the value of tech company stocks
Tech stocks are valued only because investors expect them to grow, rapidly and forever
Tech corps that don't promise unreasonable 10×, 20×, etc. growth, are severely punished
They have *no ideas left*.
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"We will eat whatever slop gets scooped onto our plate as long as it's a bigger scoop than China's or Russia's."
This is an incredibly well reasoned philosophical argument against the continued encroachment of AI and the rot at the heart of our tech and our economy, but this one sentence cuts to the quick of why it will still steam-roll over us: The vast majority of the populace, at least in America, and I suspect in the larger "developed world" does not care. As long as there is reasonably palatable slop for us to consume, that's good enough to appease us. I see little islands of folks like me ranting and raving about this shit online, but do it in person, and you'll find yourself speaking with a sympathetic (but docile) choir, or folks who just... don't get it. They *like* it.
THEY LIKE IT.
They like the slop. It's good enough. It's easy. Why do I have to keep making things so difficult?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dm_UY8jCGQ
#GenAI #RotEconomy #Enshittification #Luddite #KingLudd #MainFrameBreakers
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GenAI is also the real-world corollary to my hypothetical cornerstone argument against nuclear power: We have proven, time and time again, that the capitalist hunger for literal power knows no bounds. GenAI is sucking up massive amounts of energy and power, driving neighboring populations insane from the noise, and having untold consequences on the environment outside of those factors... We are already on track to outstrip current power production in an age where we need to be *decreasing* our power demands. Nuclear just creates *different* pollution, one which will quickly pile up if our power demands aren't curtailed.
But y'know, become a fucking "prompt engineer" or whatever fake-ass job you can imagine to keep propping up and legitimizing this death-cult economy.
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That fact that I can't afford to live unsubsidized as a skilled mechanic and I hear people talking about training to become "prompt engineers" makes me want to start smashing servers.
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Listening to Better Offline: The Era of the Business Idiot - Part 3.
Ed Zitron has been on good form this week. All three episodes in the Business Idiot series dropped this week.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=1000712701288
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The hype-economy (or #roteconomy) and its believers/promoters/leaders may be about to amplify the crash to come / already underway.
There isn't much there there, but they are zealots of potential (unfounded), spoiled by their privilege and the luck it affords them.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/ -
How The #TechMedia Can Beat The #RotEconomy
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Even if a government weakens laws around pollution control and monitoring, removes toxic discharge laws, companies aren’t *required* to suddenly increase polluting. They choose to. Because they’re giant turds and they make more money by not having to clean themselves up. #RotEconomy
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On generative AI:
"I want you to remember the names Satya Nadella, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Sundar Pichai, because they are the reason that this farce began and they must be the ones who are blamed for how it ends. " -- Ed Zitron
https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/
#LLM #AI #AIBubble #SpeculativeBubble #Grift #EdZitron #Enshittification #Encrapsulation #TechBubble #RotEconomy #AiMindVirus #BrainRot #AISlop #GenerativeAI
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"Despite hating all these places, ads, and garbage interactions between weirdos and robots, i don’t think i’ll be leaving anything anytime soon."
https://sliceofplant.com/blog/online-kinda-sucks #indieweb #roteconomy
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As seen on the N Judah street car
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"The problem, I believe, is that the tech media has become poisoned by a mixture of ignorance and cynical optimism where the narratives are driven not by any particular interest or domain expertise, but by whatever they believe the market (or the powerful people they admire) would like it to be.
I know for a fact that the senior editorial staff handling technology at multiple major mainstream publications do not really care about, understand or have any real interest in tech other than a vague attachment to the idea that it’s “important, somehow.” As a result, mainstream tech coverage is focused on market effects (like artificial intelligence, or whatever other “thing” everybody wants to read about) rather than directing coverage from the perspective of “what things are happening to people in real life as a result of technology.”
I also think that the tech media has been infiltrated and controlled by people that want to be famous or associated with famous people. They want them to win. They want a benevolent dictator. They want their products to do well so that they can get the interview with the big-name founder or CEO on stage at a conference. They want access to them for interviews, and they want to make sure they get the first look at their next product release. While one might argue that “people want to hear about AI,” what people want to hear about is largely driven by the narratives the media agrees upon."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/
#BigTech #RotEconomy #Enshittification #Technology #TechJournalism #Media #News
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In my blog
Everyone now sees the rot economy—and we're beginning to understand what's behind ithttps://jackyan.com/blog/2025/02/everyone-now-sees-the-rot-economy/ #enshittification #RotEconomy #BigTech #technodeterminism