Episode Thread - The Shareholder Supremacy Series

Hello everyone, we've got a two-parter this week, the first dropping now and the second dropping Friday. I really enjoyed reading these. Edit: I originally messed up the part 1 description.

Part 1: I track the history of the growth-at-all-costs rot economy to a court case in 1916 that established the Shareholder Supremacy, and set the terms for General Electric's Jack Welch to fundamentally break capitalism, an era where companies moved away from building lasting, sustainable companies that created things and instead began focusing on pleasing shareholders - and how it leads to today's terrible tech companies and leaders.

Part 2: The shareholder supremacy has eaten the tech industry, driving private and public companies to chase unprofitable, unsustainable ideas like generative AI as a means of expressing eternal growth to the markets. In this episode, I'll walk you through how this destructive mindset has created an entirely new kind of manager - one disconnected from labor and creation - and how the dark hand of shareholder supremacy is behind everything strange and bad in tech in the last few years.

As ever, episode links here. This one's a new record - over 150 citations in total.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LkRFCx6MO2Zz6JtwWZK7AcMKRZSaZ1UKHJRyYsSm99o/edit?usp=sharing