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paulkienitz

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25. "others success"? There is no success to profit from in AI.

Reply to Melon (Reply #21)

Thu Jun 4, 2026, 12:04 PM

21 hrs ago

AI is popular only because it's been massively subsidized by suckers. The data centers they're building will never pay for themselves. That's the key difference between true investment and a ponzi bubble.

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longshot prediction: the AI bubble gets popped this month by the SpaceX IPO, so get out NOW [View all] paulkienitz Yesterday OP

Sold my last 3 stocks. Moved money to a multigraincracker Yesterday #1

You may be right edhopper Yesterday #2

If the Democrats win back Congress this fall I predict a stock market correction. yardwork Yesterday #4

Trump will still be President edhopper 22 hrs ago #22

There are no crashes anymore. Market is rigged and irrational GreatGazoo Yesterday #3

That kind of rigging can't hold forever paulkienitz 23 hrs ago #11

and yet here we are GreatGazoo 23 hrs ago #15

The issue is how many times have we been told to leave the market? Melon Yesterday #5

Yeah, that's where I am ITAL Yesterday #8

It took six years to recover edhopper 22 hrs ago #23

Six years isn't that long for me ITAL 21 hrs ago #24

Or get out now and edhopper 18 hrs ago #28

Preferably you are cost averaging. Melon 11 hrs ago #32

There are other investments edhopper 10 hrs ago #33

No it's not "just as risky". paulkienitz 23 hrs ago #9

Ill gotten ponzy...huh? You mean investment returns. Melon 22 hrs ago #21

"others success"? There is no success to profit from in AI. paulkienitz 21 hrs ago #25

Go read what Sam Altman is saying. Uber and Melon 11 hrs ago #31

That math doesn't math -- companies will not pay enough. paulkienitz 4 hrs ago #34

WSJ and Gallup did a story looking at how Democrat voters are losing money GreatGazoo 23 hrs ago #16

"Democratic." The adjective form is "Democratic." ColoringFool 23 hrs ago #17

I could have put a hyphen in there but noun GreatGazoo 22 hrs ago #20

No Johnny2X2X Yesterday #6

I've heard that song before. paulkienitz 23 hrs ago #10

We've been waiting decades for a bubble Johnny2X2X 23 hrs ago #12

Index funds are like 50% AI bubble now. paulkienitz 23 hrs ago #14

9 years ago when I joined DU, people were saying that Bitcoin would burst and go to near zero Polybius 4 hrs ago #36

Bitcoin will either sputter on for decades, or go almost instantaneously to zero at any time -- it's not predictable. paulkienitz 4 hrs ago #37

People are predicting the market is holding on Johonny Yesterday #7

I turned some investments into a newer and larger house CanonRay 23 hrs ago #13

I'll just keep my NVIDIA,TYVM. ColoringFool 23 hrs ago #18

Jensen Huang is pulling sooo many circular-financing fast ones... paulkienitz 23 hrs ago #19

Heard the same shit from Thom Hartmann a few years back Ziggy Beans 21 hrs ago #26

That same lie was told before the last two crashes. paulkienitz 17 hrs ago #29

imho Fat gains should be pruned. Rotation is underway. bucolic_frolic 20 hrs ago #27

Simple.... multigraincracker 15 hrs ago #30

More apropos to the current situation, index funds do the opposite. paulkienitz 3 hrs ago #38

I think that's a terrible prediction Polybius 4 hrs ago #35

"doesnt crash anymore" paulkienitz 3 hrs ago #39