The post <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/1ptgyct/the_efficient_allocation_of_capital/" author="" source="Reddit">The efficient allocation of capital</a> writes, <img src="{att_link}the_efficient_allocation_of_capital.webp" href="{att_link}the_efficient_allocation_of_capital.webp" align="none" caption="The efficient allocation of capital" scale="75%"> <bq>To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".</bq> Invest now! Before the bubble bursts! <hr> The post <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/1pq61s4/4chan_2013/" author="" source="Reddit">4Chan, 2013</a> writes, <img src="{att_link}anonymous_on_4chan_from_2013.webp" href="{att_link}anonymous_on_4chan_from_2013.webp" align="none" caption="Anonymous on 4Chan from 2013" scale="60%"> <bq>There will be no "collapse" the way some of these people think of it. It's not going to be like the movie "Dawn of the Dead" or whatever where one day suddenly shit hits the fan and prices skyrocket and everyone begins to riot and the SS comes marching down the street to kill everyone. <b>There will be no "happening." It's far more insidious than that.</b> Read the poem <a href="https://poets.org/poem/hollow-men">"The Hollow Men"</a> by TS Eliot and you'll understand. You'll just notice that every day simple things will become a little more expensive. Everyone's homes and apartments will start to get smaller. Your work hours will get longer, but your pay will decrease. You'll see family and friends less, and find that in time you care less about them. Every day you'll find yourself lowering your standards for everything: work, food, relationships, etc. Job security will no longer exist as a concept. You'll notice houses and apartments shrinking. People will start hanging on to clothing longer and longer. <b>Less [sic] people will get married, even less will have children. People will engross themselves in technological distractions and fantasy while never truly experiencing the real world.</b> Whatever dream people used to have about what their lives were going to be will become for them a distant memory. The only thing left for them will be the reality of their debt and their poverty. <b>And every minute of every day they will be told, "You are stupid, ugly, and weak, but together we are free, prosperous, and safe."</b> <b>That is the collapse. The reduction of the American man into a feudal serf, incapable of feeling love or hate, incapable of seeing the pitiful nature of his situation for what it is or recognizing his own self worth.</b></bq> From the poem <a href="https://poets.org/poem/hollow-men">"The Hollow Men"</a> by TS Eliot, <bq>Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar [...] We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river Sightless, unless The eyes reappear As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose Of death’s twilight kingdom The hope only Of empty men.</bq> <hr> Finally, the post <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/1pq58mq/capitalisms_contradictory_priorities/" author="" source="Reddit">Capitalism's Contradictory Priorities</a> writes, <bq>Under capitalism, people aren't entitled to clean water, but data centers are...</bq> <img src="{att_link}we_must_choose_either_champagne_for_a_few_or_safe_drinking_water_for_all.webp" href="{att_link}we_must_choose_either_champagne_for_a_few_or_safe_drinking_water_for_all.webp" align="none" caption="We must choose either champagne for a few or safe drinking water for all" scale="75%" author="Thomas Sankara"> Thomas Sankara was assassinated at 37 years of age, surprising no-one.