I feel like the AI bubble bursting is gonna be a recession like we haven't seen in... ever? at least since 2008. And what's crazy is it feels like everyone knows it. everyone knows the cost of living is insane. everyone knows no one is making enough. everyone knows there's no jobs out there. but the numbers are still going up, their momentum held together by a patchwork of popsicle sticks and school glue as companies lay off employees by the tens of thousands and break ground on new data centers to make the infinite growth still show up on the bottom line, even as every american corporation is a rotted out husk of its former self. everything is worse. everything is smaller. everything costs too much, and no one has money. when the bubble bursts and the balsa wood gives out that line is gonna take one hell of a tumble. The collective effort of millions of people working for years is going to be wiped out of the economy because the economics of short-term capital dictate that the best way to make your millions right now is to make your company look good on paper, then sell it off before they realize you've already ripped the copper out of the walls.