Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Don’t have money invested in the stock market
Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Don’t have money invested in the stock market
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 5 days ago
If you are already invested, you can be reasonably separated from the stocks that are inflating, when the bubble bursts, as long as you are diversified the overall dip will serve you.
The directly impacted industries, those AI companies, data centers, blackrock real estate which is currently heavily investing in local power generation, hardware. That kind of stuff will impact the market, but your money is in relation to units owned. That value will come back and you as a long term investor will make a multiplier on any money you lost, because you ownership, your shares continued to go up at the reduced cost.
If you need the money you have invested for living expenses, you are fucked, but long term investors come out of these recessions stronger every time.
That’s managed investment, retail investors who are highly leveraged in the affected industries will be fucked.
Also look at gold, precious metals are a ridiculously solid investment, just don’t buy them at the market highs put of panic.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The stocks that are inflating are a significant portion of the stock market.
When they crash everything will.
When that happens the only way to not lose is to not have money invested.
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Right, they lose value, but you still retain ownership. As a part of the regular flow of things the money you make from those stocks gets reinvested into more ownership, something that keeps happening even when the value of those stocks fall.
As long as your ownership stays, the market will rebound and you will make a premium because the number of stocks you owned actually went up during the period of value loss.
When people talk about how much money rich people made during covid, they are largely talking about stock value, not just carpet bagging.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’m sorry but I can only describe this mentality as cope.
The market rebounding requires diversified investors propping it up, which no longer exist.
If AI goes kaput the stock market is getting set back at least half a decade