• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It’s real enough that the AI bust is going to leave us all in the blast crater. Tens of thousands have already been laid off in the tech sector. Those people are edging people like me out of a job or moving into other sectors and competing for jobs there. Both them and I are spending less.

    Now image the blast wave when AI really falls down.

    • ikt@aussie.zone
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      3 days ago

      calm down captain doomer

      cheap stocks are on sale! get them at discount :)

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                2 days ago

                We’re all good at different things, friend. I feel rich in spirit, and in my many years have noticed life getting harder for the people I care about as number goes up. Matter, energy, “wealth” can’t be created or destroyed, only transferred, and what that line seems to correlate with most is how much has been taken from the world we share and locked away in a form that can be measured and controlled.

                I want to be more connected to that world, to know and feel ever more, not merely be compensated for my cooperation by power within a process consuming what I am already part of. Contentment comes from place and purpose, and number will never provide that. Do the billionaires seem happy to you? Is their lifestyle an aspiration? Investment gives to them of your self and ties your fortune to theirs