• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    What’s mindfuckingly frustrating is that EVERYONE (but the rich ass financial types) see it coming. And there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WE CAN DO to prevent or prepare for it.

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      3 months ago

      We met with my mother’s broker a few weeks ago (company rhymes with “Laymond Maims”). My brother expressed his concern about the AI bubble and the broker basically said CEOs are smart people who are legally bound to safeguard their companies and they wouldn’t be so heavily invested in AI if there was any chance of its being a bubble.

      Just one of the most dumbassed arguments I’ve ever heard. OK, then how did all the other bubbles in history happen? But it was equally dumbassed of my brother to expect a broker to say anything else. I’ll bet he gets a fucking daily memo telling him not to let anybody de-AI their portfolios – if that’s even possible at this point.

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        3 months ago

        I would immediately change brokers. That’s a level of uneducated and propagandized that is truly dangerous.

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        3 months ago

        CEOs are smart people who are legally bound to safeguard their companies and they wouldn’t be so heavily invested in AI if there was any chance of its being a bubble.

        Reciting his training - were I your mother, I’d never speak with Lameman James’ Tool again and ensure that they receive no further comissions from her assets.

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          Alas, mom is all “they’ve done such a great job over the years increasing the value of our portfolio”. Bitch, the fucking market went through the roof, that’s why your portfolio has done so well. It has nothing to do with Draymond Claims. You were in mutual funds the whole time!

          No, I don’t actually call my mom a bitch.

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        3 months ago

        they have the levers and means to come out on top of it.

        To delude themselves that they’ll be coming out on top… they’ll suffer too, and the more they strive to climb, the more they’ll be risking everything.

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      3 months ago

      The last few financial crises have led to massive wealth transfers to the 1%. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the more accelerationist of them are trying to engineer them at this point.

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      3 months ago

      Save your pennies then you can buy up all the property of the impoverished at a deflated rate and rent it back to them at any price you want.

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      3 months ago

      And there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WE CAN DO to prevent or prepare for it.

      sure there is.

      • get a years supply of shelf stable food, preferably things with a decade long shelf life
      • start a garden and fill it with staple foods that are nutritional and abundant
      • install a solar system, no matter how big or small
      • collect barter goods like alcohol, fabric, paper, hand tools, entertainment media, books, etc
      • learn trade skills that can land you a job in a jobless market

      these are just five things you can do now before the bust.

      • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zone
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        3 months ago
        • install a solar system, no matter how big or small

        Gee, get a load’a this one, goin round whackin heliocentric planetary systems in people’s yards. Kickin off the gravitational alignment of Earth with their extra “sun and planets” next to the lavender.

        I hear they even do dual-star solar systems… pffft… thats just showing off.