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Kwakigra@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

The actual bubble that needs to be popped is financialization. The US economy is now completely deratched from productivity and is now running on speculation only through financial valuation. At the same time, people are starving, infrastructure is falling apart, the birth rate is plummeting, and suicide is on the rise. It’s time to stop taking “job creators” seriously and use all this fallow professional experience and skill to restart the material economy and forget this pretend crap that keeps plutocrats busy doing nothing of any value to anyone.

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teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

The US economy is now completely detached from productivity and is now running on speculation

Yep, the market feels like it’s in max-greed mode. There was a taste of fear when the tariffs were first announced, but wallst was quick to token TACO to justify just ignoring everything. My question for the last 9+ months has been, “how long can a market willingly ignore reality?”

I assume it will take until a critical mass of those speculators start needing to liquidate. I don’t know what will trigger that, but at some point the profits come due.

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- p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  My question for the last 9+ months has been, “how long can a market willingly ignore reality?”
  
  How long did we kick the foundations out of the US dollar when we got rid of the gold standard, and just let it float on speculation and feelings? What, 60-70 years now?
  
  How long has the stock market existed on the whims of people’s feelings over cold hard statistics and long-term analysis?
  
  Markets have been ignoring reality for many decades.
  
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  - chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    To be fair there’s all the shit with dollar denominated oil, SWIFT, terrorist regime change on countries that don’t want to play along, etc. It might not be based on any kind of fair exchange of value, but that’s not quite the same as the USD’s global reserve currency status being vibes-only.
    
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  - The_Italian_Uncut@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Exactly. Since the end of the gold standard, the economy hasn’t been about production — it’s been about valuation.
    
    70 years ago, companies were built to make things: cars, fridges, tools. Today, they’re built to inflate stock prices.
    
    The real product isn’t goods. It’s debt, speculation, planned obsolescence.
    
    And now, AI isn’t replacing workers to make things better. It’s replacing them to cut costs — while real needs go unmet.
    
    This isn’t progress. It’s the slow collapse of a system that forgot its purpose.
    
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    jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    There are two sides to that story:
    
    There is not enough gold to match the increases in both population and productivity of the last 70 years, and you don’t want just a handful of people holding gold that spikes in value through the roof.
    
    Smart people invest in companies that pay dividends. Speculators invest in… whatever, tulip bulbs.
    
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    Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It’s the slow but inevitable achievement of end-state of a system designed to re-frame and re-centralize power in the hands of the elite following the liberalization of political power.
    
    This is its purpose. It always has been.
    
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- Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Take minimalism to the extreme. Boycott the economy as much as possible.
  
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
birth rate is the least of our problems, which is one our University staff at my old school were complaining why the enrollment was low asf.

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