OpenAI isn't profitable. Should that be normal?
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Maybe companies should be judged on their ability to effect change rather than hard dollars-and-cents.
  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Maybe, but hopefully the existing controls will prevent that from happening again …. Unless overzealous attempts at “reducing regulations” break those. There were quite a few factors around the Great Depression but consider controls like:

    • “circuit breakers”, automatically halt trading when a stock or the overall market drops too quickly
    • “qualified investors” are criteria you must meet for the riskiest investments, basically that you can handle the loss
    • bank requirements for capital, risk, so less likely to collapse
    • bank rescues - Lemmy likes to complain about rescuing banks instead of people, but bank collapses during a crisis are what can push the crash off the deep end

    Also the overall size and complexity of the modern investment industry should make it much less likely for any one type of investment to drive a general crash.

    • Venator@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      3 months ago
      • “qualified investors” are criteria you must meet for the riskiest investments, basically that you can handle the loss

      I’m surprised you’re not calling that a government overreach considering your previous comment.

      Do you think the current government controls are working and shouldn’t be changed at all?

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        We haven’t had a real depression in 100 years, so something is working. Sure, we have recessions periodically and some are worse than others, but as long as it’s relatively limited.

        I think that a lot of regulations were put in place for a reason. Whether they work for that reason or not, it would be better to understand the reason before blindly removing regulations

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        None of them have come close to the severity of the Great Depression. We’ll never control all instabilities, the important part is limiting their severity

        Yes, I’ve been affected by several of these. I’ve gotten laid off during downturns. I’ve been affected by high interest rates. I’ve been affected by unattainable housing. But at least it wasn’t worse

          • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            And yet this is a place where centrism is the goal.

            • We know that trying to tightly control economies does not work. At all. We shouldnt even try.
            • We also know that corporate-anarchy serves only robber barons. That’s not acceptable.

            So yes, the best answer is to give the market freedom but not complete freedom. To let it do its ups and downs … within limits. To combine the strengths of capitalism with the guardrails of a guided market. Where the capitalist driven market does not serve society, it’s a failure to guide the market so capitalism fulfills desirable goals

            • Venator@lemmy.nzEnglish
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              3 months ago

              There’s centrism and then there’s “centrism” 😅 (people who call themselves centrist and argue for acceptance of extremist right wing policies and “considering both sides of the argument”).

              Also the whole idea of left, right and centrist is an overused often oversimplification for the purpose of forming in groups and out groups which is not constructive and leaves no room for nuances.