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In all of those cases capital chased a future reality, railroad, electricity, internet all had massive speculation. the dot com bubble came and went but interne
by agentifysh 8mo ago
In all of those cases capital chased a future reality, railroad, electricity, internet all had massive speculation. the dot com bubble came and went but internet stayed.
$7 trillion looks cartoonish due to inflation, you'd have to normalize it with other economic numbers. Large companies are funding capex with bonds that still within healthy margins per employee head.
> to cure every disease and solve every problem known to man
not sure why you view this so negatively, that would be absolutely worth every penny. Granted there is a lot of noise too but dismissing everything because of the volume is premature. Technological shifts rarely produce catastrophic labor supply/demand shocks that last, it changes how we work and the market adjusts.
You are conflating the hype layer typical with all major technological breakthroughs and the subsequent capability that gets baked into humanity as a result.