r/mildlyinfuriating • u/SensitiveExtremity • Sep 01 '26

Ruined by Technology Youtube replacing comments with AI summary

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Sliding the comment card left and right both shows AI crap instead of just the comments. Just give me human interactions ffs.

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u/thekrone Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

Modern day investors don't care if stuff is good. They don't care if it works. They don't even care if people like it. They actually don't even care if people use it.

They only care if the perceived value of the company goes up. That's it. They want to buy shares low and sell high.

They don't care if the company is set up for long-term success, as long as they can sell their shares for more than they bought them for. In fact, if the company crashes after they sell (especially if they can short it right before the crash) and they can buy back in at a lower price again, that's great for them.

Forcing AI into things builds investor hype. It doesn't matter if it's good or it works or anyone wants it. Saying "we added AI to our products" is enough for the stock to go up.

Investors like hearing "AI", so we get AI.

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u/Massive_Town_8212 Sep 01 '26

Really like that "perceived value". SpaceX talked a big game about mining asteroids for nearly infinite money, along with also folding Twitter and Grok into the company, and apparently that makes them the most valuable company on the planet ever? Even though they're not really showing any actual growth?

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u/Low-Condition4243 Sep 01 '26

Stock market is just a scheme for capitalists to gain ever growing power and form monopolies on everything. We’re at the stage now where monopolies are buying out monopolies.

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u/Massive_Town_8212 Sep 02 '26

To be fair AND balanced, it's not a monopoly, there are 3 companies per industry.

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u/AmbiDenxter3 Sep 02 '26

Oligopoly, not a good thing still

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u/Thesa_Arde Sep 02 '26

If corporations are people then they are also allowed to form polycules if everyone consents. This is what liberals want. /s obviously

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u/TooObsessedWithMoney Sep 01 '26

I'm reminded of events covered in movies such as the Big Short or Margin Call where everyone is fine with smelling their own farts because they make fat stacks because of it.

This is not sustainable.

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u/Jaded-Asparagus-2260 Sep 01 '26

The whole stock market is a fucking pyramid scheme. Buy something from a poor fucker to sell it for more to a different poor fucker.

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u/blazze_eternal Sep 01 '26

They only care if the perceived value of the company goes up.

And they want it to go up as quickly as possible! Stability is an afterthought, or even worse a weakness implying stagnation.

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u/thekrone Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

In fact a lot of them will just ride the wave until it seems like the company is going to nose dive, then cash out and short it.

They'll pressure the board into making decisions which might cause the stock price to jump short-term, but will hurt long-term viability of the company. Then when the pressure they applied to make bad long-term decisions starts to hurt the company, they'll cash out before the stock tanks and buy shorts so they profit from the stock tanking as well.

And then if the company doesn't go completely under and starts to stabilize, the investors will buy back in while the stock is low in order to do it all again.

It's all about making their own personal line go up as quickly as possible. They do not care what gets destroyed in their wake.

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u/ARM_vs_CORE Sep 01 '26

The chase for consistent unending quarterly growth at all costs unironically is what will end human civilization. Infinite growth is impossible and the reckless pursuit of it at the cost of the environment, the climate, and society will be the end of us. Trump is a cancerous symptom of our broken society.

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u/midir Sep 01 '26

Modern day investors don't care if stuff is good. They don't care if it works. They don't even care if people like it. They actually don't even care if people use it.

They only care if the perceived value of the company goes up. That's it. They want to buy shares low and sell high.

This makes a depressing amount of sense.

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u/Infshadows Sep 02 '26

this is why open source apps and private companies (like steam) arent shit

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u/Chief_Mischief Sep 01 '26

I personally think capitalism is great and that we should be allowed to invest in companies.

That being said, I also acknowledge that we are in a form of late-stage capitalism that is so deregulated that it no longer serves a purpose that can be compatible with environmental sustainability. We have seen the SEC, EPA, CFPB, FTC, OSHA, etc all defanged and sabotaged over the decades. We also have outright corruption and bribery via corporate PACs and lobbying.

Capitalism works best in a well-regulated environment with a government that actually gives a shit about the environment, consumers, laborers, etc.

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u/Massive_Town_8212 Sep 01 '26

I like being able to buy stuff too, and would also like to invest in things I believe in. However, my issues with capitalism of gestures broadly, all that is by design. Attempt to regulate capitalists and they'll just take over the government, like they already have. Give it more time and we'll see the return of robber barons shooting strikers with their own private armies.

Hell, we almost had an actual fascist coup d'etat because of the New Deal. FDR saved people over companies, and capitalists wanted his head. That was partially aided by Prescott Bush, granddaddy to Dubya whose dad's foreign policy fostered the conditions for 9/11 to happen and allowed him to implement the Patriot Act and send thousands of our people to their graves in decades of constant war.

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u/Teehus Sep 02 '26

That is just the logical consequence of capitalism. Capitalism in its core is about growth and getting as much money as possible. Sure, governments can put boundaries on it, but the companies will try their best to undermine those regulations or get rid of them, and if other countries don't implement similar regulations their companies will (most likely) outperform those who have to abide regulations.

Investing in companies these days just keeps that behaviour going, the investors want to see their money grow and that (mainly) happens through grows of the company. The shares normal people buy are so small percentage wise that as an individual you can barely even claim to have any stakes in the company. Not to mention that you didn't actually invest in the company, the original buyer did, you just paid the previous person who owned the stock money.

Capitalism is a deeply flawed and unsustainable system based on greed. If you have morals you'll (most likely) never make it to the top.

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u/robotmayo Sep 01 '26

Capitalism works best in a well-regulated environment with a government that actually gives a shit about the environment, consumers, laborers, etc.

I mean then its no longer capitalism at that point which is why capitalist are very against regulation.

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u/composedofidiot Sep 01 '26

They forget that pure capitalism requires a level playing field.

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u/prototip99 Sep 03 '26

Graph must go up and to the right. Nothing else matters

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u/kubin22 Sep 02 '26

thats cause for shareholders only important thing is if the revenue is going up at this moment nothing else, oh company got ruined, well time to cash out and buy shares somewhere else.