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The Rot Economy

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At · 9 February 2023 · 16 min read

A post on wheresyoured.at, published 9 February 2023, is cited by 20 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 11 October 2026).

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20blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
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First cited5 Mar 2024
Latest citation9 Sept 2026
Words blogs link it with5
Linked with its own title8 of 20 blogs
External links52
Length3,646
New citing blogs a weeksince Mar 2024
New citing blogs a week, since Mar 2024: 136 weeks, peak 2 a week, latest week 0

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Shape: evergreen. Half of its 19 citing blogs had cited it after 345 days; 100% first cited it more than a year on.

Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. 1 blog has no dated post that cites this page: counted in the tally, not here. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Who cited it

Cited by 20 blogs across 5 subjects: technology 10, arts and culture 2, books and writing 1, business and economics 1, design and making 1, unclassified 5.

Words blogs link it with

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • the rot economy8 blogs
  • rot economy5 blogs
  • growth-at-all-costs rot economy2 blogs
  • commitment to growth-at-all-costs thinking1 blog
  • ed zitron1 blog

Cited by 20 blogs in 24 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

Blog
Newest citing post
Date
fershad.com1 post
Links and listens #6

linked as “The Rot Economy”

Read at fershad.com (opens in a new tab)
9 Sept 2026
leisureguy.ca2 posts
The Era Of The Business Idiot

linked as “Rot Economy”

Read at leisureguy.ca (opens in a new tab)
29 Dec 2025
1 other post
The Shareholder Supremacy

linked as “growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy”

Read at leisureguy.ca (opens in a new tab)
4 Jul 2024
vintagecomputing.com3 posts
Vintage Computing and Gaming is 20

linked as “Ed Zitron”

Read at vintagecomputing.com (opens in a new tab)
2 Nov 2025
2 other posts
The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Bring Back Personal Computing

linked as “The Rot Economy”

Read at vintagecomputing.com (opens in a new tab)
18 Jan 2025
The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Bring Back Personal Computing

linked as “The Rot Economy”

Read at vintagecomputing.com (opens in a new tab)
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West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)1 post
Fourteen years ago at the blog: the "a pervasive fetish" line actually holds up better today than it did then

linked as “the Rot Economy”

Read at observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
15 Oct 2025
Pluralistic1 post
Pluralistic: Hate the player AND the game (10 Sep 2025) Read at pluralistic.net (opens in a new tab)
10 Sept 2025
davetang.org1 post
Hosting your own Git repositories

linked as “profit and growth”

Read at davetang.org (opens in a new tab)
13 Aug 2025
Matthew Ernisse1 post
AI Just Plain Sucks

linked as “The Rot Economy”

Read at going-flying.com (opens in a new tab)
12 Aug 2025
mongoose-studios.com1 post
It is Possible to Commit no Mistakes and Still Lose

linked as “rot economy”

Read at mongoose-studios.com (opens in a new tab)
25 May 2025
coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com1 post
Tariffs, CanCon, and You

linked as “nothing to show for it”

Read at coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
16 Apr 2025
Eric Bailey1 post
Tag, you’re it

linked as “the rot economy”

Read at ericwbailey.website (opens in a new tab)
18 Mar 2025
Coyote Tracks - Blog1 post
The Reluctant Technologist

linked as “Rot Economy”

Read at coyotetracks.org (opens in a new tab)
10 Mar 2025
craftbyzen.com2 posts
2025 Week 07 - Weekly Notes

linked as “The Rot Economy - Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At”

Read at craftbyzen.com (opens in a new tab)
27 Feb 2025
1 other post
Refuting the claim that cultural holidays are not sustainable

linked as “The Rot Economy”

Read at craftbyzen.com (opens in a new tab)
13 Feb 2025
Keet blog – research and modelling, with some relevance for society1 post
Book reviews (2024): FOCUS and Atlas of AI

linked as “hollowed out like software can be”

Read at keet.wordpress.com (opens in a new tab)
3 Jan 2025
da.vebrig.gs1 post
📅 Daily Note: December 18, 2024

linked as “commitment to growth-at-all-costs thinking”

Read at da.vebrig.gs (opens in a new tab)
18 Dec 2024
DSHR's Blog1 post
Accelerated Computing

linked as “growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy”

Read at blog.dshr.org (opens in a new tab)
16 Jul 2024
characterworks.co1 post
Nobody wants to use any software

linked as “The Rot Economy”

Read at characterworks.co (opens in a new tab)
16 Jun 2024
documenteering.com1 post
How growth is killing the economy

linked as “Ed Zitron, The Rot Economy”

Read at documenteering.com (opens in a new tab)
13 May 2024
net.wars1 post
Deja news

linked as “rot economy”

Read at netwars.pelicancrossing.net (opens in a new tab)
3 May 2024
akhilunnikrishnan.com1 post
On Ted Chiang's "Stories of Your Life and Others"

linked as “rot economy”

Read at akhilunnikrishnan.com (opens in a new tab)
5 Mar 2024
newton.cx1 post
The Small Web and Science

linked as “the rot economy”

Read at newton.cx (opens in a new tab)
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