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Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?
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this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2025
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It's also funny how Lemmy is buying up this narrative.
What's happening is that Dementia Don is curb-stomping the US economy. AI investments, mainly in data centers, are the only thing that still seems promising. When you are on a trek and someone leads you through Death Valley, while pouring out all the water, you shouldn't blame the last horse that still keeps going.
Putting the blame in the right place would certainly help, with a view toward the mid-terms.
Financially: Diversify. Make sure that you are not completely dependent on what happens in the US. But mind that Europe comes with its own imponderable risks (ie Putin). Same with China. Maybe some old leader dies and the new crew runs everything into the ground; they go to war with Taiwan, that sort of thing.
I don't know that the OP or anyone else necessarily disagrees with you here. It's one of the reasons that I believe we're fucked when the bubble pops. Every other sector is shrinking otherwise, which is only making the mania more extreme.
Trump has fucked the economy, but I don't expect the next administration to be able to pull off a miracle and fix the mess we've created within the next 10 years. Foreign relations and our status as the reserve currency are shot to hell. The US is going to have to answer for our behavior.
Those last two sentences are very alarming for anyone paying attention. The dollar bond market is currently collapsing, and we were THE defacto world power because of our soft power. Farmers around me are currently paying the price at China is buying up all the cheap land they can, and although I call them my friends,I can't help but feel a certain schadenfreude as I told them trump was evil 8 years ago and the only comeback they have is "but other countries were scared of us then!". Like their entire lives are nothing but a zero sum game, and now they can't sell their soybeans. I may be a terrible person, but at least I can read the tea leaves.