Re: Umpteen BILLIONS, Maybe a TRILLION, invested in "AI' - but Almost NO Returns

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On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:20:44 +0100
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> All driven by the financial emancipation of consumers with far more 
> money than sense..

There's a lot of things you can pin on consumer stupidity, but I doubt
this is one of 'em. It's probably in part a natural consequence of the
fact that sensible people may sometimes hire idiots/grifters by
mistake, but idiots/grifters, once they have a foothold, will pretty
much always hire more idiots/grifters, but in the US it got a big boost
from a catastrophic court verdict stating that the primary duty of
management in a publically-traded corporation was to the stockholders
and the actual health of the business was at best a secondary concern
(let alone little questions like "is what we're doing in any way
ethical?" or "do people even *want* what we're trying to sell them?")
Ed Zitron has a pretty good rundown on how this unfolded:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/tss/
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

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