All of these miserable online experiences are symptoms of an insidious underlying disease: In Silicon Valley, the user's experience has become subordinate to the company's stock price. Google, Amazon, Meta, and other tech companies have monetized confusion, constantly testing how much they can interfere with and manipulate users.
In some of the most extreme cases, tech titans have decided to completely abandon the ideas that made them famous in the first place in a desperate bid for renewed relevance. The best example of this disastrous search for a second act is Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook. Meta became the most successful social-media company because it was a relatively straightforward and attractive way to catch up with your friends.
edzitron This is correct in hiliting GE/Welch, as his influence as a successfully amoral, shameless parasite, rewarding gamblers over work ethic, was a pivot point where 'shareholder value is the only value' predatory sociopathy BS really started destructively taking off in the biz world.
edzitron I call it Boardroom Gravity
Ironically I tried to look up the measurements of a meter panel and was not successful could not get past advertisements I gave up