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Beany wrote: Thu Oct 15, 2026 12:38 pm It's going to end up with a global economic crash on par with 2008 or the dot com bubble, you know, those once in a lifetime crisis scenarios that I'm pretty sure I've gone through four of since leaving school....
The financial side of things is pretty clear, the debt Vs the revenue is scary!

But, just like the dot.com bubble, the tech doesn’t go away afterwards. We all still use the internet all day long despite a load of people losing their shirt.
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Three trillion dollars of circular financing with no one making anything useful is good right?
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ZedLeg wrote: Thu Oct 15, 2026 7:55 pm Three trillion dollars of circular financing with no one making anything useful is good right?
It's good if you invested in Nvidia about four years ago.
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ZedLeg wrote: Thu Oct 15, 2026 7:55 pm Three trillion dollars of circular financing with no one making anything useful is good right?
Donnie making vids of him wrestling a tiger isn't useful?
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I remember doing funding applications 6 or 7 years ago and having to crowbar machine learning, LLM or AI in the proposals, as funders got weak at the knees the moment they heard those words!
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