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      I think they saw it coming as well.

      There is a song playing, fewer chairs than people running and it is about to stop. They want to earn money and hope they are not the last one to sit.

      They are playing a game and they know it

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      They saw it coming. This is a legal bank heist. The ultra rich rob the banks then will cry poverty (to big to fail) and demand to be rescued only rob the banks again another day. This isn’t the first time they’ve pulled this scheme, it won’t be the last. As long as it keeps working they’ll keep doing it.

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    Is this finally the crack, or will they manage to paper over it and keep the bubble growing even further?

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    Everyone here is so excited for the bubble to pop, even though it would make everyone’s life harder.

    As for me? I too am also excited for it to pop.

    Why? Well what the hell is the alternative, I’ll take a market correction and return to sane time any day of the week but it seems that them oligarchs are too horney for their game of financial Russian roulette.

    I rather them putting the gun down, but if they insist on playing then I want them to lose faster.

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      The longer the bubble inflates the worse the pop of going to be. Bursting now is going to be bad, but a hell of a lot better than bursting later.

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      The problem is the robber barons are unaffected by the crashes. In fact, it just becomes another buying opportunity for them with all that free money lying around. They just keep getting richer. It’s the rest of us that suffer.

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    Everyone is hoping that we start arresting these politicians and tech bros when the bubble bursts but why wait?

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      That won’t happen. People like Elon only exist because of these bubbles. The bubble means nothing to the individuals, they just jump ship and start something new.

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    I’m doing my part by continuing to ask chatgpt questions constantly without paying them money. I have started using Claude at work as well. If I do it enough, they’ll eventually all realize it’s expensive af, and give up on it. That’s the hope anyway.

    Edit: Also, fucking finally. Been waiting for this to happen for what seems like ages.

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    Yes, please. Yeah, they are gonna get bailed out, but:

    1. Not by my gov
    2. At least some of these AI cunts, driving the bubble, will end up broke, hopefully
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    So should I withdraw whatever i have in technology index funds, while I have the gains?

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      If you have a place to park it that will earn more or lose less, definitely. Putting into cash will lose at least 3% per year.

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        I’m thinking withdraw my gains, wait for the crash, buy in again? Damn, it’s a gamble…

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          Timing the market usually fails. Dollar cost averaging can give you a small advantage.

          Assuming that AI follows a similar path as the .com boom… A lot of companies will go under leaving a few companies who will benefit greatly. It’s not that AI is going away. We’re just pruning the dead wood.

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          The AI bubble won’t be a typical dip. Some, maybe most, of these companies will be wiped out. No idea as to who crawls out the blast crater, but there will be survivors.

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        My uneducated and impoverished thought is cash will buy you real estate which is about to get really cheap, whereas any stock you buy today is going to have a severe crash very soon.

        But most of my investments are in beans: i’ve got jars or black, red, garbanzos, kidney, and navy beans; also a variety of lentils.

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          Real estate has the potential to be cheap in 20 years as the baby boomers die leaving smaller generations to buy their larger number of homes.

          Any kind of asset can be a good investment. If you have a place to store it, classic cars only go up in price and some of them are under 10K. Bonus: you get to drive them. I know someone whose 401k is mostly collectable guns (rare, 100+ years old guns). You just need to choose something with lasting value. Don’t repeat the Beanie Baby crash.

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      In theory you could short Microsoft, NVidia, etc. but the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, so even though those stock prices are a crack fueled fever dream, betting against them is likely gonna be a trip to the poor house. I saw someone on here recommend some funds that are mostly large cap, traditional companies (read, not big tech) and some bond funds. I was going to research his recs today and see if it would make sense to move some money out of the S&P 500 index fund that I lean on way too much (of couse, it would have been better if I considered this a week ago 🤦🏾).

      Lemme see if I can dig up that post…

      Hopefully this link works, I’m using Voyager and haven’t figured out how to link posts https://lemmy.world/comment/26583022

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      Depends on your risk profile. But if you look at the growing capex and consecutive negative free cash flow of big tech, it is a sign of worry if you are only investing short term or you do swing trades.

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    Damn, my retirement fund is gonna look like shit the next few years but It’s over 3 decades until I’m gonna touch that money so I guess I’m fine. Not sure I wanna try to time the market and put it all into bonds for the next 1-5 years until the actual burst shows up. (It’s 85% global index)

    Good thing the majority of my regular savings is in bonds and high-yield saving accounts.

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      It’s only down like 1% from last week. I wouldn’t change anything unless you can’t sleep at night. Could have an AI bubble pop like 30% of the market but I would expect it to eventually recover. I personally prefer not to worry so don’t have much in stocks compared to most people who have retirement accounts

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      over 3 decades until I’m gonna touch that money

      Say hello to Anthropogenic climate tipping-points.