Post #3121838
2026-05-06 13:45 UTC
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@GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2026-05-06 14:48
> FYI: Ed Zitron is a PR expert. He has no background in engineering or finance. I'm not super interested in people's credentials (good or bad). I need for the actual substance of the words on the page to be well supported and well reasoned. Zitron does the work of actually gathering the public statements (across SEC filings, public disclosures, public or leaked documents) and crafting a narrative around those statements. He links to original source documents a lot. Other people should be doing the same, but for whatever reason not a lot of other people are. He needs an editor. His articles could be better organized, more tightly argued, and more focused in scope. I have some skepticism about many of the extrapolations that he makes from the facts, but on my read, his factual claims are mostly well supported. When he calls other people liars by showing those contradictions out in the open, I think those arguments stand for themselves regardless of what his background, credentials, or even motivations are. So I draw a line between his factual claims about the past and present and his predictions about the future. And that's the reason for this thread. He makes factual claims about the exponential rise in costs for these companies, and infers/extrapolates into the future with it, but I want to check whether those extrapolations actually fit the data we already can see. That's what I'm trying to learn by asking here. Of course, if you have specific examples of him making false statements about the past or present (no need to attribute intentionality to the speaker), I'd love to see those, too.