• @lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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    07 hours 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.

    • Vritrahan
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      55 hours ago

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

        • Vritrahan
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          43 hours ago

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