• blueamigafan@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I look forward to the AI bubble bursting, and billionaires looking shocked, ‘because there were no signs’

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        21 days ago

        In contrast to the housing bubble, where a lot of the value was in overpriced houses sold to individuals, this overpricing is almost entirely in tech stocks, and tech stocks are almost entirely owned by by the wealthiest 10%, even 1%. The tech billionaires have limited ability to divest themselves of their own overpriced companies and absolutely will lose money.

        None of them are going bankrupt, they’ll all be just fine when the market recovers in a few years, because that’s the nature of capitalism. A bunch of peons, who convinced themselves that the bubble-value of their 401k meant it was safe to retire, will suffer, will have to go back to work - if you’re not an oligarch, losing money is painful.

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        21 days ago

        Yeah all the people praying for a crash are praying for nobody to have retirement funds.

        You can easily tell who’s actually employed in this thread because anyone with a 401k is going to get dicked down while the 0.1% get a bailout.

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      21 days ago

      A lot of them are actively talking about how it could be a bubble and the implications. No one is going to be surprised. Billionaires are just really hoping they can make it work before the bubble pops

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        20 days ago

        Yeah… I mean billionaires have at least as much information as a random person on Lemmy :D