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      AI stuff accounts for more than a third of total US GDP growth at this point, so yes they will do whatever it takes to keep that bubble afloat.

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        …but that aspect will only keep going as long as they keep buying GPUs. If this bubble bursts, sure the government might prop up the companies so they don’t incur heavy losses, but the economic activity will stop. At that point the American economy stats will shrink by 30% (to their true size)

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          Oh yeah absolutely. Im just meant that you shouldnt expect them to stop. They will drag this out as much as possible which will lead to the worst possible fallout when it does inevitably pop.

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    With 95% of all attempts to turn AI into money falling flat, and some of them with spectacular fireworks, this is not surprising.

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    Can we be so sure such a stock market dip is due to the ongoing daytime TV drama that is AI?

    There’s also the undercurrent of the Trump administration steamrolling over decades- or century-old precedents daily, putting our country, and thus the economy, in new territory. Basic assumptions about the foundations of our economy are crumbling, and the only thing keeping it from collapsing outright is inertia. But inertia will only last so long. This is affecting every aspect of the real economy, goods and services that are moving around right now, as opposed to the speculative facets like the AI bubble.

    I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop and for Wall Street to realize Trump has really screwed over vast swaths of supply chains all across the economy.

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      Well yeah, but the oligarchs (including the mainstream media) have a vested interest in blaming anything but MAGA’s fascist kleptocratic kakistocracy.

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    These assholes keep raising my hope. Doubt there’s any burst coming in the next two quarters at least.

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    Winners will rise from the eventual ashes, but what then? I still don’t see how they make a profit, let alone recoup their outlay. Even large corporate customers will eventually drop AI.

    Business has seen failure after failure to reap real benefits. At some point the boards of directors will take it out on the CEOs, ousting any that went all in on AI. I don’t think that’s wish fulfillment. CEOs have been kicked to the curb for far less than fucking up their workforce and lighting money on fire.

    Anyway, AI expenditures are propping up our economy, in America at least. Consider the coming crash along with Republican’s idiot tariffs and other boolshit that has turned away even our closest allies, this crash is going to make the dotcom bubble and 2008 look like small beer.