• Furbag@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    ERROR: Capitalism has no idea how to deal with this situation.

    Au contraire, it actually does! The same way the last four or five economic crises were handled - massive government bailouts for the affected sector.

    It’ll soften the blow for the common people’s 401ks so they don’t completely revolt, but the c-suite execs will get their big payoff and the asset buyup (datacenters, hardware, etc) in the aftermath will transfer an unimaginable amount of wealth into the hands of yet fewer people and dramatically increase inequality.

    It’s a shitty solution, and one that is not viable long term, but since it has worked so many times in the past, I doubt the government is going to change up their winning strategy. Especially not with the current clown cadre at the helm.