The AI bubble's double bind: a market crash or mass unemployment — either way, crisis
saikatc · x · 2026-10-15
saikatc lays out a bleak dilemma: either the AI bubble pops, triggering a Great Depression-level market crash, or AI valuations turn out justified — which only works if AI replaces a huge number of workers and causes mass unemployment. Either way, he argues, we are headed toward a monumental crisis.
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