"I won a Pulitzer for explaining the Great Depression. The AI spending boom terrifies me"
https://fortune.com/2026/06/02/ai-bubble-history-railroad-crash-1873-pulitzer-liaquat-ahamed/
https://fortune.com/2026/06/02/ai-bubble-history-railroad-crash-1873-pulitzer-liaquat-ahamed/
25 Comments
ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 70d
The rich will be fine. It is the rest of us who will be fucked.
WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 70d
That’s why we really need to plan on eating a few. Maybe an Elon Musk meatloaf. 🤔
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 70d
Do we have to? Can't we just settle for a back alley shooting or something? I don't want to defile a perfectly good meatloaf with his Nazi ass.
WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 70d
We could always use him to fertilize a vineyard? 🤔
jamesrandysghost@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 70d
Ketamine infused wine...now we're talkin!
illi@piefed.social · 8 pts · 70d
I know food shouldn't go to waste, but I don't think I could stomach that 🤢
WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 70d
You’re probably right, he would be the Cybertruck of meat.
Cybersec@piefed.social · 5 pts · 70d
Feed him to the hogs.
pticrix@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 70d
Needs to be filtered more than that. Feed it to soldier flies, then give their larvae to chickens, then feed the hogs the eggs, then perhaps that bacon will be taint free.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 69d
why eat when you can PURGE, think of the rick and morty episode where they purged all the rich people at the end.
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 3 pts · 69d
The ketamine would make that flesh seriously tainted.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 37 pts · 70d
Why couldn’t we spend it on better quality of life? It would have real-world benefits.
one_old_coder@piefed.social · 23 pts · 70d
It's not our money. CEOs deserve it for working so hard. They are 10x productive. They work 80 hours a day when your lazy ass only do 8 hours.
lavember@programming.dev · 9 pts · 70d
... and 9 other hilarious jokes to share with family at the dinner table
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 69d
They’re allegedly that productive because delegation, and I too would be delegating if I too were in their same position so they haven’t done much more than deliberate. And if I were in their position, I would do the same shit.
I also deliberate and delegate as much as I can so fuck ‘em.
And most of that “delegation” is already baked in by hierarchical work environments so again, fuck’em.
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 70d
The answer is capitalism, that's why
marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 70d
How does that help the owners of the western world continue to make exponential money, exactly?
The Goal at the very top is to wholly, or as much as they can, eliminate the lower classes and all they deem lesser and live in, ironically, fully automated luxury space communism. AI, theoretically, is a path to letting them do just that.
If AI doesn't work out their goal remains the same, and it's not improving your life if you turn out to be an essential 'lesser.'
FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe · 9 pts · 70d
AI doesn’t need to “work” in the sense that it does people’s jobs well. It just needs to work as an excuse to fire people and work as competition in the labour market. That way even if they can’t completely replace their workforce, they can at least pay them far less bc instead of paying an expert, they’re paying someone (with expert qualifications) minimum wage to be an “ai overseer.” Unless we elect leftist politicians that will actually pass worker protection laws then this will continue to happen and get worse and worse
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 70d
It is like they watched all of the dystopian sci-fi from the last 40 years and decided "we should totally do that"
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz · 26 pts · 70d
The AI bubble is the biggest rug pull in human history.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 70d
Wtf is this? Please tell me this article wasn't written by AI
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 69d
I don't fucking know (probably)
I went to Walmart the other day, first time in years. AI art on everything. Went to several stores where AI music was playing on the radio. Searching on the internet feels like trudging through slop. My work colleagues send me AI photos and articles. I'm constantly getting AI slop pull requests.
I can't fucking take it anymore, it's like the whole planet got infected with slop.
brianpeiris@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 69d
I dunno, seems like an honest editing mistake that is actually more likely to be human than AI generated. Probably should read "In particular in the last six months, but two things have changed dramatically over the last twelve months."
RecursiveParadox@piefed.social · 2 pts · 69d
With the "But" capitalized it looks like an editing or copy error.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 69d
And the sentence that follows?