Thoughtful Money with Adam Taggart · Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Ed Zitron observes that in the current climate, commitment to AI is often a criterion for workplace judgment and venture capital investment, independent of actual performance or utility. He describes this as an 'insane ideological side' fueled by social media and a quest for hypergrowth.
“And on top of all of this, we have this insane ideological side where once commitment to AI is how you judged in the workplace, it's how you judged on Twitter, it's how you judged by VCs.”
“It is a fundamentally new thing created by social media mania and the death of hypergrowth in hyperscalers.”