XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 5/12/2025 6:08 am, John Ames wrote:   
   > On 4 Dec 2025 18:24:38 GMT   
   > rbowman  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Translation: screw the consumers that have been buying Crucial RAM;   
   >> thar's money in them thar AI hills!   
   >   
   > It is truly incredible how brain-dead and short-sighted management at   
   > *so* many major industry players is. This is, I guess, what comes of   
   > fostering a business culture where the primary criteria for promotion   
   > isn't business acumen or applicable knowledge, but bloviating in just   
   > the right way so's to convince equally brain-dead MBAs that you're a   
   > Dynamic Thought Leader :/   
   >   
   >> If the AI balloon bursts, like it has a history of doing, there will   
   >> be a lot of people in deep shit. Unfortunately the general public   
   >> will be swimming around in the cesspool too.   
   >   
   > It's not "if," but "when" - and it's *not* gonna be pretty. Just the   
   > other day I had to spend several hours trying to convince myself I had   
   > *any* interest in stocks for long enough to get my 401(k) out of the   
   > default "invest everything in the absolute biggest players on the   
   > market" setting and into funds based around companies that actually   
   > *make* things, which might at least stand a chance of not cratering...   
      
   About two years ago, I got access to my approx $150,000 Superannuation   
   (which I think is equivalent to your 401(k) account money) and I've been   
   "playing" by investing some of it on the Australian Stock Exchange.   
      
   So far I've managed to turn about $120,000 into $115,000 plus a few   
   thousand in Dividends .... and heaps of Tax Deductible Transaction Costs.   
      
   Yet to do my Tax Return to see if I am actually a Winner or not!! ;-P   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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