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I outlined it here a bit. Basically there's a lot of Wall St fuck fuck games - AI is just one of them - that's a tottering heap of dollar-denominated accounting entries for lies and trash. But also, the institutions have been white anted. Trump's pick for the next Fed chair is a bitcoiner who espouses Austrian economics - that is, literally the same gold standard economics that made Great Depression 1 worse.
I guess my confusion is this – at what point does reality exert any influence on the lies-and-trash accounting? What in the physical reality is the reason they can't just keep fapcircling the economy forever?
The bit where OpenAi and Anthropic need actual real dollars to set on fire.
Fortunately, most of the rest of the world economy is heading in the opposite direction and building new free-trade zones without the US. I think the US in a few years will start to feel a lot like the UK today, with everything falling apart, everyone becoming poorer and less mobile, anger about Hispanics instead of Poles and trans people.