Is There a Labor Short in the Tech Industry?

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The tech media did a very bad job of noticing how many companies were made that just lost money as their business plan was planned, says John Sutter. The government gave them nothing very important; they thanked them for giving them very little on a very strange time line. That one didn't really get reported. Te s b, i had some very generous things for businesses, not for people, because why would a person need money when a business does? Corporations are people,. And i want to end with this question. So, as we've been talking about all this with the tech industry and with the backt work stuff, you know, you mention how there was perception of a labor

Paris Marx is joined by Ed Zitron for a wide-ranging discussion on the responsibility tech media has to its readers, the problems with crypto, and why bosses like Elon Musk are desperate to force workers back into the office.

Ed Zitron is the CEO of EZPR and writes the Where’s Your Ed At newsletter. Follow Ed on Twitter at @edzitron.

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Ed wrote about the problem with Kara Swisher’s aggressive response to a listener asking why Pivot had run an ad telling people to put their retirement savings into crypto. (Listen to the ad here.)
Elon Musk wrote a set of emails telling workers they need to return to the office for a *minimum* of 40 hours a week, or they can “pretend to work elsewhere.”
Ed has written many times about employers pushing their workers back to the office.
In March, Kevin Roose wrote a Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto, and Ed was one of the critics that Molly White got to contribute to an edited version.
Sam Harnett wrote an essay on how the early, uncritical coverage of the gig economy helped legitimize its exploitative business model.