I’m hearing that a big ole crisis is in the makings.

Slightly spooked.

What do you think? Is it alarmist? What will inflation hit worst in this case? What will be devalued most?

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    The optimistic scenario for the economy is a pessimistic scenario for the world.

    For the economy to do well would require the AI bubble to not pop. It would mean that these absurd valuations for the AI companies turn out to be correct. That all the circular financing somehow comes good and all these ridiculous-seeming bets about the future of AI turn out to be at least partially correct. It will require that the companies that fired workers to replace them with chatbots turned out to have made a good and profitable decision. It’s the scenario where Musk becomes a trillionaire.

    • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      What’s funny is the AI bubble has exposed how bullshit the economy is in general, like GDP is really just a measure of how fast money moves, which Nvidia, Microsoft & AI companies shovelling money through a circular economy counts as growth, even if they lose money doing it.