Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    5 hours ago

    Oh, we’ll see about that.

    The key difference between tech giants and the banks, is the tech giants aren’t holding everyone’s money hostage.

    Sure, those gen Z kids will lose all their photos of grandma because they couldn’t fathom a world without Instagram, but we’ll cope.

    • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
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      6 minutes ago

      No, but when the AI bubble bursts it will wipe out between roughly 40% and 60% of the value of the US’s stock market, depending on which estimate you go by. For comparison, the initial crash of 1929 saw the stock market losing around a third of its value.

      So either the government does bail them out, or it’ll be worse than that crash was.

      Neither option is good for the little people