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program_whiz • today at 8:20 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

maybe not. There could be mass unemployment and all the big dogs could also lose from the buildout while smaller players (non-public) take over. It could be a lycos / yahoo / google situation where there was no "winner" to invest in during the initial dotcom crash, and there was large-scale disruption all the same.


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Terr_ • today at 8:50 PM

I'd like to note that "the sector that employs you" should be part of any diversification planning.

A stretch of unemployment can be weathered with good investments, and depressed investments can be weathered by staying employed, but both together forces people to "sell low".

arisAlexis • today at 8:44 PM

The dotcom crash has nothing to do with the AI build out