this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
851 points (97.8% liked)

Technology

59677 readers
3257 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Dumb people are going to see headlines about “AI” and “the first social media IPO in a long time,” and they’re going fork over money. Also speculators are going to buy after they speculate that other speculators are going to buy speculatively.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this IPO will probably go just fine and a bunch of wankers will make a bunch of money. That's what it's all about, after all.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And where does that money come from?

Honest question, I hate finances.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Mostly from small people either tricked into buying the "new bitcoin/Nvidia/apple/... before it's to late or dumb people hyped by other dumb people into buying it. And if enough small people invested and the stock rises the big player collect the profit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that was my expectation ... Thanks for the explanation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait for dat citation... before accepting that rationalization

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yea, no I don't have time for anything besides confirmation bias