Ask farmers how that worked for soy beans.

Enshittification strikes again

like pervasive distrust of Jews

Historically that’s a manufactured thing. Christians were not allowed usury, charging interest on loans. Jews didn’t have that limitation. One solution they came up with was barring Jews from doing other jobs and forcing them into the money lender role, with the Christian landlord asking for their cut in fees. That gave Jews a reputation for being distrustful greedy bankers.

Corporate undercuts co-ops making a loss until the co-ops die, then increase the price to make it all back. They’re predatory like that when not stopped by local laws.

Especially if combined with rampant diseases and resource depletion.

Or worse, he gave them really generous IOUs, collectible the week after the flood was expected.

Mostly as in 52%. Yeah, about half is AI.

Yes, current definitions say it’s a dwarf planet

In RepubliSpeak that’s being a strong leader and getting things done.

And soon enough they’ll write about the mysterious rise in violent attacks on politicians and the business elite by lone wolfs.

That’s Putin, always claiming he’s got a royal flush even when just holding a pair to try to intimidate the opponent into folding. It’s the same every time.

The money doom loop:

The rich are that rich because they are competent. Because they are so competent we better listen to them and give them what they want. They want money, and so we make them richer.

The amounts going around now are getting too big for a government to cover. Instead of too big to fail, they’re now too big to bail.

So he just thinks Spain isn’t buying enough from the USA’s outlet store.

You also have the circular investment. NVIDIA puts money into OpenAI. It uses that money to buy computing power from Oracle, who then fills its datacenters with hardware from NVIDIA. Everybody’s valuation rises.

Edit: valuation, not validation

Sounds more like preparing for a lot of Quiet Firing (harassing people so they quit) when the AI bubble starts to deflate or pop.