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0 pointsnerdsniper2mo ago0 comments

Where is the money that was going to VC investments going now? With increasing inequality, I figure rich people have more money than ever that they need to figure out where to invest.

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h2zizzle2mo ago

Interest on debt; shoring up the financial vehicles and insurance through which they diffused the catastrophic losses of their bad bets from the past few decades; stockpiled for the inevitable economic collapse and the feeding frenzy that will follow; land.

h2zizzle2mo ago

I just want everyone to understand that part of why everything is so expensive today is because our elite funneled the surpluses from the electronic revolution into boondoggles that not only didn't make back what they cost, but that demand even more labor, to this day, to cover maintenance and interest.

>Yeah, screw DEI!

lmao I'm talking about wars; sprawl; advertising and consumerism; wasteful or gatekept luxuries; feet-dragging on any number of technologies and policies that could have mitigated the damage, just to please incumbents.

We temporarily made life spectacularly better for like 5-10% of the population, and doomed everyone to either generations of toil, or a hard reset in the form of a "burn it all down" revolution.

epistasis2mo ago

For a long time interest rates were incredibly low which led a ton of investors to put money into VC funds, despite their very high risk.

When interest rates go up, money floods out of higher risk higher return areas like company formation, and floods back into buying bonds, so investors can collect the low-risk interest that didn't exist before.

JoeCortopassi2mo ago

The big money is going to the OpenAI/Anthropic types producing foundation models that have to raise billions on a regular basis. This is money that would normal be spread across the startup ecosystem instead of concentrated in a handful of massive companies. When it finally hits IPO, I'd bet that you see it start to get freed up for new investments

Just to drive the point home, in 2019 the total VC market was ~$300 billion. To date, roughly $235 billion is tied up in just OpenAI ($168b) and Anthropic ($67b)

bigthymer2mo ago

More money is flowing into commodities. Gold price going up feeds into more mining.

saalweachter2mo ago

Real estate?

esseph2mo ago

If so, not commercial. Commercial has been in a slow collapse + shell game of shifting the debt burden.

bombcar2mo ago

Real estate is not doing well, it's "stalled" but not collapsing, but prices are staying steady and mortgage rates are not down to Covid levels.

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h2zizzle2mo ago

>Yeah, screw DEI!

We temporarily made life spectacularly better for like 5-10% of the population, and doomed everyone to either generations of toil, or a hard reset in the form of a "burn it all down" revolution.

epistasis2mo ago

For a long time interest rates were incredibly low which led a ton of investors to put money into VC funds, despite their very high risk.

JoeCortopassi2mo ago

Just to drive the point home, in 2019 the total VC market was ~$300 billion. To date, roughly $235 billion is tied up in just OpenAI ($168b) and Anthropic ($67b)

bigthymer2mo ago

More money is flowing into commodities. Gold price going up feeds into more mining.

saalweachter2mo ago

Real estate?

esseph2mo ago

If so, not commercial. Commercial has been in a slow collapse + shell game of shifting the debt burden.

bombcar2mo ago

Real estate is not doing well, it's "stalled" but not collapsing, but prices are staying steady and mortgage rates are not down to Covid levels.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse