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Fiendish Thingy

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4. So, how would a 35% drop after the AI bubble bursts be worse than the 50% drop of the 2008 GFC?

Reply to justaprogressive (Original post)

Fri May 8, 2026, 01:05 PM

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As bad as it was, we survived the 2008 crash.

At the beginning of the year, I did move money out of some of our tech heavy funds and into more diverse funds, including international funds.

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Bubbles are REALLY evil by Cory Doctorow [View all] justaprogressive Friday OP

Cory's right about all the economic harm that is already being done by AI, and the harm that will be highplainsdem Friday #1

+1 dalton99a Friday #2

Not all "AI" is ChatGPT and Claude and such HPD AZJonnie Friday #5

You'd have to give me specific examples of companies using genAI who are not in any way using AI highplainsdem Friday #6

Okay, so forgive me for asking AI this question, but it can say it better than I ever could AZJonnie Saturday #8

Claude's apparently unaware that Adobe Firefly's training included millions of AI-generated images from highplainsdem Saturday #10

Get rich quick artists have precipitated bubble after bubble in recent times. usonian Friday #3

So, how would a 35% drop after the AI bubble bursts be worse than the 50% drop of the 2008 GFC? Fiendish Thingy Friday #4

Except we had edhopper Saturday #9

It's likely our government will prop it all up... hunter Friday #7