this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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Yeah, it's not as if this economy does anything more than shovel money into the black holes of billionaire bank accounts.
I don't think the AI crash would effect the daily life and real life job, industries. Its effects will be limited companies that are invested in this bullshit, which are running this long term pump and dumb con.
In the end this bullshit doesn't have real value in the market like food or healthcare. All they have to show for is some bullshit evaluation on paper and they have nothing real to show for these trillion dollar companies.
Its effects will be limited companies that are invested in this bullshit, which are running this long term pump and dumb con.
The effects of the housing bubble will be limited to the lenders and borrowers of subprime mortgage debt.
A fair few of the companies would also never be allowed to go under. Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Amazon, etc are basically insulated from any ill-effects, because they would considered too big to fail, and be bailed out if anything major happens.
They both lead to economic ruin
One group of people wins no matter what
I choose the timeline of AI fails, economy crashes, people band together and fight back against goverments.
And the AI backs the people
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Together, we are free
Or, we get rid of capitalism and build a new world not based on growth amd respectful of people and the environment.
We can rebuild after it fails. If it seriously starts replacing people and there’s no regulation against corporations doing it we’re done
If it seriously starts replacing people and there’s no regulation against corporations doing it we’re done
Yes. And if so, we all need to do our reading, first:
How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion
I care about jobs far less than I care about our environment.
AI must fail.
I can assure you humanity seems dead set on destroying the environment no matter the means to get there.
So uh.. let's try to not do that?
Good idea
I'd care about the economy if I had a real stake in it. We're all just serfs being used up and thrown away. The medical industry sucks the last bit of wealth anyone is lucky enough to build over their life time.
I could have had a stake in the economy, not on a billionaire level but at least on a "doing alright for myself" level. I am very good at chemistry, could've gone into pharmaceuticals, the Navy tried recruiting me for their nuclear program... I told them to fuck off (in more polite verbiage) because I planned to grow weed.
I couldn't bring myself to give a shit because I don't believe in the overall mission of this nation (or for that matter, other nations under the same economic system). I will not give my life to facilitate wealth accumulation at the expense of exploiting / killing other people and the planet we depend on for life. I have a lot to offer and I wished I lived in a nation worth offering it to, but I don't, so I'll probably spend my life trying to contribute to the government as little as possible while helping other people as much as possible. I wish I could help to further our species, but I'm concerned anything I contribute would be used one way or another to degrade this planet. It's advice I learned from a prison documentary: "Take everything they give you, give nothing in return."
Let it crash.
AI fails
only the proportion of the economy that relies on AI would crash, which represents a sizable portion of the economy but which is controlled by a small numerical population of individuals
so for the majority of people it is fine
They'll find a way to make us all pay, but I agree with the sentiment
AI did not take your job. Your economy is shrinking and you have just accepted diminishing returns. The top 10% is on the spreadsheet you are not. You should be worried about getting murdered in a trench for the pdfile class. Just look at all the turd sandwiches around you... the fast talker is not gonna convince me to buy a turd sanwich. With a currency that has been diminished by 50%...well of cource I am gonna be cheap or completely opt the fuck out. We are in hog heaven and dum dum purgatory. The rich stole from you and now we have our hands and only fans. They don't need you but you need to have some self respect. AI makes garbage from the work it stole from us and it only poops out turds and makes the job 100 times harder. Don't internalise the nonsense of capitalism. It is not your fault. It is stupid by design and you, well you are just fine.
Economy crash is less damaging of a totalitarian techno-regime
Yeah, the economy has crashed, what, like 3 times in my life now?
Fuck the economy.
Lol 
Economy has always been an euphemism for the financials of the capitalists
Someone on Lemmy pointed out that you can usually just replace "the economy" with "rich people's yacht money" in most news articles, and I'll be damned if that isn't the truth.
"Rich People's Yacht Money"
Wednesday’s strong reports on Rich People's Yacht Money were welcome news for the Federal Reserve, whose job it is to keep the U.S. job market healthy and inflation low. The Fed’s job has become more difficult because of the jump in oil prices, which is pushing upward on already high inflation.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average just crossed 50,000 points for the first time, but that doesn’t mean Rich People's Yacht Money is healthy
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Imagine if jobs weren't tied to survival. Like, imagine people got paid for whatever they did. Raise a kid? Government sends you the wage. Community work? Fill out the wage application, describe what you did, wage. Work some job? Wage. Overpaid? Taxed more. Underpaid? Subsidised. Sat on your ass and charged other people rent? Jail.
Then consider what it would mean for ai to take over a bunch of jobs. More money into the pool to pay the wages of creative work, community work, and say UBI. Tech improvements would be celebrated. The economy would be democratised. We'd all benefit.
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Stocks are their own entire economy for the rich people at this point. Just don't give gamblers bailouts they don't need and we will be fine.
Better hope you have zero money sent through or stored in a bank or pension fund and you don't have a mortgage yourself or your landlord doesn't have a mortgage or your employer doesn't have a mortgage or business loan and doesn't use a bank.
The correct response is what Iceland did: government bails out the bank's customers, takes ownership, and actually jails the c-level ~~wankers~~ bankers.
Because like it or not, you're still part of the financial system unless you're currently sat in a self-sufficient earth-ship borrowing some else's WiFi connection.
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The economy is already crashing. AI will just make it that much worse. Trump will be the first president in the 21st century to cause a US depression.
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The economy won’t crash. Will a large segment of corporations that have either invested heavily or are AI companies take a substantial hit? Yeah.
Fucking let em.
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