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i hate living in the crypto , ai and big social media era
It's only getting worse too. The entire US economy is being propped up by AI and crypto. It's like the sub-prime mortgage craze of the early 2000s. Lots of money going into a system that will never recoup the investment. Either they have to find a way to extract value, or the bottom's gonna fall out. Just wait for the too big to fail AI and tech bailouts.
So by worse you mean better? I can't wait for the AI bubble to pop personally.
Did you skip the last sentence?
Sorry I don't get what you mean by skip the last sentence.
It gets worse until the bubble pops is the idea, which I personally don't think it will for the US.
Do you mean the AI bubble won't pop? Currently that seams very unlikely, AI is entirely propped up by investors and they aren't generating any real profit from consumers. Literally the definition of an unsustainable market.
No, what is meant is that "as long is the AI bubble it will get worse, then it gets better".
And to that I say "It won't get any better after the bubble pops".
There's simply no incentive in the US from the left side to change anything that I think needs to change and instead has it's priorities on things that I don't think will help the underlying issues at all.
Well welcome to US politics I guess.
Also I think things will get better after the AI bubble pops, there will be less AI overhype and AI shoe horning into everything. ram prices will go down, GPU prices will go down and therefore most consumer tech items will also go down.
Makes it super easy to know what to avoid though