As the AI market continues to balloon, experts are warning that its VC-driven rise is eerily similar to that of the dot com bubble.

  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Lots of everyday normal people lost their jobs due to the bubble. Saying it only impacted the already rich investors is wrong.

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      1 year ago

      Lots or some? I’d say “some”.

      edit: Really, though. How many people lost their jobs? Obviously, this being a techy space, anecdotes will lean towards people knowing someone personally. Tech people know other tech people.

      But in a country of 300 million, how many people was it? Was unemployment significantly moved by it? No, it was not, because for the most part the websites that failed did not employ very large numbers of people, and there were other jobs available in the field.

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      1 year ago

      There really isn’t much that can harm rich people that won’t indirectly do splash damage on other people, just because their actions control so much of the economy that people depend on for survival.