I guess that's true. Customer service has almost never been able to actually help me, even before.

The problem is when you're part of the 20% who has an issue that isn't solved by the basic help steps. It's so damn frustrating to tell an AI multiple times that you need isn't covered by the basic steps

I'm pretty sure the models are trained primarily by the help docs, rather than previous support incidents, which would explain the extreme insistence on performing basic support steps repeatedly

That kind of thing tends to be very common in the Finance Industry in my experience because of potential conflicts of interest and inside trading if one has access to non-public information around customer trade orders.

Generally you're limited to trading the most common market traded assets (like stocks and bonds) and some of which has to be authorized or is limited in some order way (like trade orders having to be filled in advance), and most derivatives are generally out.

That said, personally I'm just using Gold as a safe haven for my savings and waiting for what I feel is an innevitable global economic crash. Granted, I've been doing it since the last Crash and only in the last 2 years has it really started moving up in terms of the larger currencies (USD, EUR) rather than sideways.

Might not be a highly leveraged as a derivative would be, but as a highly conservative way of just preserving one's wealth it has worked fine for me.

Ever since the 90's, I've often wondered if some of these bubble companies are just the living end of the "eat the rich" philosophy. I can see no more practical a way to achieve this, than to convince investment capital to empty their wallets, funneling it straight into the pockets of dozens if not hundreds more people. It's hardly Robin Hood, but it's also cash that's no longer hoarded at the top.

Plus, we also know that a worthwhile goal is to not go the distance, but simply become a tasty snack for a bigger company before you go bankrupt. This lets your flimsy business model and weak patent portfolio become someone else's problem.

That’s what I’m saying, it’s probably not going to be a crash, just the cost of living crisis on steroids. My moneys still on mass hunger riots next year

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What about The BRICS currency that's being worked on?

Also depending on how bad the whole situation could get it could legit implode the federal government as a whole. I really don't see the feds under Trump doing even the bare minimum that was Hoovers anti-depression policy which while the absolute minimum was enough to keep the states from effectively becoming completely autonomous, and even then California, Louisiana, and the Alaska territory were effectively independent in a lot of ways.

Yeah the one thign ai consistrntly does well is return more targeted search results than a browser.

WAAAAY back in the day, search engines functioned like a complicated Yellow Pages with indexed results and explorable categories. They encouraged you to find unique websites and seek out new perspectives and ideas. It wasn't sustainable due to the volume of websites people make, but it was fun.

Search engines have been hot garbage for a while. If AI can at least shake that up, it would at least provide some competition and reason for these companues to try and innovate something.

Yes. They were two different crashes, I wasn't implying they were the same. If anything the tech bubble from mid 1990 to 2000 was more "honest", it just wasn't going to last yet everyone invested in it. Unlike the 2008 crash of real estate that the banks knew was a problem but ignored. Dotcom was tech, but 2008 was more like the current AI money run, in the methodology of pumping it for money until it breaks.

Yeah, I totally agree.

That's part of the point I was trying to make when I said they were not seen as "an effective trade token", but I ended up talking mostly out the lack of trust on them due to all the scams.

People already mostly pay through mobile, cards, online, etc in existing government backed currencies, using existing payment networks.

The hill that needs to be climbed for trust in truly digital currencies (rather that just the digital representation of existing currencies, which is already what we mainly have with fiat currencies in things like online banking and electronic payments) is far vaster than that "people are used to doing some things digitally hence would trust everything else digital" one-dimensional take on the subject you put forward - it requires trust in the currency itself as well as in the payments network itself, which are the difficult parts (just notice how hard it is to get away from VISA and Mastercard as payment networks),

Mind you, maybe a government backed digital currency would work (though if I remember it correctly Colombia's attempt at that failed miserably) but that's really just a variant of a fiat currency that's fully digital and in practice fiat currencies are already mostly digital (most people's money exists as entries on bank databases, most payments are 100% digital and do not involve physical cash in any way form or shape and in fact most money in circulation developed nations isn't in physical form).

I mean, a government backed digital currency would indeed technically be a digital currency, though controlled by a government, same as fiat currency, hence technically it would also be a fiat currency.