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The entire US economy right now is 7 companies sending a trillion fake dollars back and forth to each other, but it's totally not a bubble according to grampa Powell.
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2025
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Of course they have. But the spendings are bigger.
Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, Oracle and Intel are all profitable. They might not be worth as much, but still.
Those are all shovel sellers. People stop buying shovels when the gold rush goes bust.
The shovel manufacturers will probably be fine, just reduced margins, but the shovel warehouses are so fucked holding nearly a trillion dollars of worthless shovels
In the words of Pat Gelsinger, we're about to see a lot of digestion.
more like, they are hoping IRON pyrite(fools gold) would be innovating as good as normal good or better.
Yes. It will all fall apart when all the regular businesses (not AI companies) realize that AI is just wasting their money and creating a big mess, not actually increasing their profits. These are supposed to be the big customers for AI and they’re really not benefiting from it at all.
the customers being only other CEOs and middle managment, whom try to reduce headcount/excuse to fire people. on some of the subs they discussed how the offshored tech indian teams are not as good as the ones in the west(EU, South america, and USA)
some people made money during the gold rush selling shovels and eggs.
Oh, i didn't think of hardware suppliers.