I mean... both are inevitable... the economy has collapsed for the normal people, and employments been hitting everyone for over a year, and bottom line, either way AI goes... it's a lot of jobs. IE it fails and shrinks down... all the jobs around it are in trouble, it actually succeeds it's going to take as many jobs as possible, there's no job friendly ending to this.

I'm too burnt out to care about the economy or component prices anymore.

I just want the morons who got hooked on this shit and ruined their brains into mush using it to reap what they have sowed and face the music when their brain substitute costs more than they could ever afford.

They thougt they could game the system by saturating everything with metric cartloads of useless slop, the bastards, while those of us with still functioning brains waddled through it and attempted to fix it!? Well, fuck them, now they won't be able to afford their crutch and their brain will be too far rotten to ever come back!

We'll still have to clean their damn mess, of course, and the world will be much worse than before they and their suppliers ruined it, but at least there might finally be a light at the end of the tunnel.

I don't think so. I sometimes think of covid and how when actual calamity hits we suddenly realize money is a kind of fiction. If the economy goes totally to shit we will see no mass starvation and probably not even mass homelessness or else we would have to admit what a giant failure capitalism is.

Just like covid, at the end of the day when shit hits the fan we retreat back to that archaic and ancient system known as "socialism".

As opposed to the loss of employment driven directly by using AI that will continue if it doesn't burst?

Ive been sitting on some cash waiting for things to tank so I can buy a new car below MSRP