• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Which is the exact same behavior that caused the dot com bubble. VC funding was throwing money at any and every dot com business, in the hopes that it would explode and lead to profits.

    All it did was massively overvalue the dot com companies, which caused a bubble when people finally realized they were overvalued and VC investors turned off the spigot of free money.

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      25 minutes ago

      and then the government fucked up and tried to save some of the filthy corps.