Topic: The new capitalism

Live&Lemon started this discussion 59 minutes ago #137,052

I have a crazy idea: what if the way you have a successful company is you actually don’t care about making a profit. What if, the point of the company is to convince investors to give you more money and you just ignore profit?

Live&Lemon (OP) double-posted this 57 minutes ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #1,453,089

Surely this can continue forever and has no downsides.

Live&Lemon (OP) triple-posted this 56 minutes ago, 1 minute later, 2 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,453,090

Step 1. You give me all your money

Step 2. ????

Step 3. Super intelligence singularity conquering the cosmos

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 55 minutes ago, 31 seconds later, 3 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,453,091

Better idea: Fascism but with even better drip and tiktok edits

Live&Lemon (OP) replied with this 51 minutes ago, 3 minutes later, 7 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,453,092

SpaceX 2025 revenue: 18 billion USD

Walmart 2025 revenue: 681 billion USD

SpaceX market cap: 1.9 trillion USD

Walmart market cap: 909 billion USD

It’s almost like the stock market actually is not related to the performance of a company. It’s almost like it’s just vibes or something. Maybe people feel like it will go up so they put money in it… and then it goes up because it goes up when people put money in it because they think it’s gonna go up.

Live&Lemon (OP) double-posted this 50 minutes ago, 1 minute later, 8 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,453,093

I can’t wait to see OpenAI and/or Anthropic IPO.

Live&Lemon (OP) triple-posted this 46 minutes ago, 4 minutes later, 12 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,453,094

Also, this is fake news, ignore this:

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-big-techs-ai-spending-is-3-trillion-higher-than-it-seems-e1067bb2

Live&Lemon (OP) quadruple-posted this 41 minutes ago, 5 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,453,095

This has definitely never happened before with the internet or railroads or canals back in the 1790s. Innovations in technology always lead to everybody undervaluing it because they didn’t see the future, not overvaluing it because they jumped the gun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Mania

Live&Lemon (OP) quintuple-posted this 39 minutes ago, 1 minute later, 19 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,453,096

You know they used to think aliens were building canals on the moon and on mars? People used to think canals were the future.

Live&Lemon (OP) sextuple-posted this 37 minutes ago, 2 minutes later, 21 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,453,097

It turns out they were probably seeing the back of their own retinas reflection on the telescope lens.

Minichan