Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Shareholder primacy Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 11:08:59 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: <20251204110859.000076e9@gmail.com> References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <10gekqm$39ian$3@dont-email.me> <10gh60o$83hq$4@dont-email.me> <8F_WQ.75605$TwW8.61488@fx13.iad> <10gislv$sv5d$1@dont-email.me> <10gjnqp$163o1$3@dont-email.me> <10gjpuv$163o1$5@dont-email.me> <10gju98$1934g$1@dont-email.me> <10gnj81$2l66v$2@dont-email.me> <10gqjh4$3pve8$1@dont-email.me> <10grui2$8csu$4@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:09:04 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="12fdbfe2ea788172b16603fc474c96bb"; logging-data="562654"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18yMwfaQfAKTQN8dwvO67Y1Pl0BAj3GT3g=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:dlHCY31h35Rv0/UlNtbwXBCYmTw= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78293 alt.comp.os.windows-11:27927 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... (Also had to steer clear of a bunch of *other* options because they were heavily based on US Treasury bonds, and anything pegged to the USD is just as likely to take a bath in the fallout...)