this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
1353 points (99.3% liked)
Bluesky
1735 readers
633 users here now
People skeeting stuff.
Bluesky Social is a microblogging social platform being developed in conjunction with the decentralized AT Protocol. Previously invite-only, the flagship Beta app went public in February 2024. All are welcome!
founded 11 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Great explanation!
Made me finally realize that the US tendency to always bail out "too big to fail" is a huge mechanism enabling the outrageous speculative silliness in the first place, cuz there's not enough risk applying downward pressure on price.
This is probably obvious to folks, lol, but it wasn't to me. Net result is just that there's more logic behind absurdly high stock valuations (and not just limited to AI ones) than I previously understood.
the US's financial markets are left purposefully unregulated to facilitate "liquidity", read....taking $ from the world's gamblers. With the way MM's are setup and largely unmonitored...this means the US's stocks are purposefully ran up in proce specifically to drop them hard, to trigger emotional reaction-selling from those that don't know any better.
that plus a couple key differences in how option contracts work vs most other markets means the whole thing acts as one big fucking casino. all of this is by design, because the people running the US (big business) want regular cycles of boom and bust to take advantage of the working/(non-existent now) middle class.