• Vritrahan@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Anything can happen. We can discover time travel tomorrow. The economy cannot run on wishful thinking.

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      2 months ago

      It can! For a while. Isn’t that the nature of speculation and speculative bubbles? Sure, they may pop some day, because we don’t know for sure what’s a bubble and what is a promising market disruption. But a bunch of people make a bunch of money until then, and that’s all that matters.

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        2 months ago

        The uncertainty of it is exactly why it shouldn’t suck up as much capital and resources as it is doing.

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          2 months ago

          Shouldn’t, definitely. But for a while, it will keep running, because that’s how a lot of speculative investment works.

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            2 months ago

            I agree, and the problem is finance capitalism itself. But then it becomes an ideological argument.