• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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      Let the taxpayers prop up failing companies. Corpo welfare is the good kind of welfare even though most of the money gets sucked up by the Executives and share buy backs.

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    you’re kidding right?

    those billionaites that gambled the US economy on an executive borwnosing machine will get a bailout paid by those who lost healthcare and can’t afford food. 2008 all over again.

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    “I’m gonna take you all down with me!”

    Then I’ll ask for a sweet socialist bailout while the rest of you enjoy rugged capitalism.

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    Make no mistake. Just like the housing bubble of 2007 and 2008 there are people poised and ready to make tons of money off of the deflation of the AI bubble.

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    Big tech has never seen common people as anything but data. It’s funny they now are concerned for what will happen to us if their bubble bursts

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    Don’t worry, I’m sure there will be a huge government bailout that the people have no say in. Remember 2008? I don’t remember voting to give away piles of money to the bankers.

    You know what Iceland did when there was suspicious investing and they had bank failures? They put the bankers in jail! What did we do? We gave them a bonus!

    God bless America, because we’ll need it!

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      America is really bizarro world compared to other countries and how they handle things like this.

      It just seems like in America, you can fail upwards, con people and still get out filthy rich.

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        you can fail upwards, con people and still get out filthy rich.

        Only if you con the poors. If you con someone who’s rich or “powerful”, then you get punished.

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        It’s only bizarre until you realize this isn’t a failure of the system. This is a success for the people getting the payout. They have lobbied and deeply infiltrated the government. The US government doesn’t serve the citizenry anymore. It serves the rich and powerful. The rest of us are just useful as consumers to funnel money to the corporations.

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    This is a threat. They know that they’re using the stock market to fund their greed and that anyone with savings tied up there (Retirement funds that are invested in the market) will be on the hook. Plus the tax payer money they’re going to ask for because they’re “too big to fail”.

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    The sooner the better. Less LLM infatuation means better customer service, less overall environmental impact, and more water available to cities.

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    The plumbers will. The electricians will. The carpenters will. The bricklayers will. The farmers will. The steel plant workers will. The dockyard workers will.

    Yes, if you’ve got savings invested it’ll touch you, but the actual jobs - you know the ones adding and making real, concrete things, probably won’t notice a big different if the AI stocks tank 30% in a day.

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      Many electricians, carpenters, and steel plant workers are currently working to build AI data centers. Funding other projects has been postponed or cancelled as the AI data centers are able to pay more

      Electricians especially. Trump cancelled many clean energy projects, which created large swaths of electricians without work if it weren’t for AI data centers

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    Who is “no one”? Because yeah, there will be splash damage, but some sectors (“AI” companies and the megacorps involved in the massive ongoing self-dealing circlejerk) will collapse, but others will simply see a correction. And I’ve already dumped anything LLM-related (as well as most US-based securities and ETFs) as of early this year. So I’ll take a hit (everyone will take a hit), but it’s not going to be nearly as bad as it will be for all the bag holders.

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      Tech companies will ask (and get) an enormous bailout so they don’t have to fire everyone, and then they will fire everyone anyway. In order to recoup some of the budget losses, King Trump will implement one or two more taxes