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1929 flashback? We already had a pandemic but no booming times

It has been amazingly booming if you have had money in any market... But poor are forgotten.

Markets might be booming but society sure isn't. Everyone's miserable and burned out and broke.

it may depend on where you live and who you hang around with

Which usually depends on how much money you make!

Except most people have general ai for free or $20/month.

That's not really very useful if you're struggling to make rent or put food on the table :/

You can't eat AI slop

nah, more recent is dotcom bust. lots of circular funding on ephemeral services that have zero physical basis or equates to real gdp output.