• kautau@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The meta problem to that is the super rich are gambling on failure just as much as they gamble on success. They have their super portfolios so spread out that if something fails they may lose money on the thing but make more money on the effects of the failure with other investments. And for the most part, they don’t handle that at all, it’s data science run hedge funds that are running trillions of calculations a minute as markets and global shifts occur to ensure that “line go up” for the accounts they manage, which results in a lose-lose for everyone else, because often the bad social things happening are more profitable so they will try to move the market in that way. Hypercapitalism is fucked

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      The issue is that they aren’t as smart as they think they are. They’ve create a more dangerous world for themselves and their children, and while they’ll still be at the top, their position is far less stable. They’re still trapped on this planet with us, and are still vulnerable to the apocalyptic problems they’ve caused.