I’m just afraid that prices of $everything will go up soon and will not come down anymore, like they did after Covid.

If it’s temporary I can live with it.

I guess this was inevitable with the absolute insane money being poured into AI.

FrankBooth 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We useless eaters are to be priced out of life soon enough.

	▲	dgxyz 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Traditionally that hasn't gone well for the rich folk.
	▲	brador 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Truer than even you dare to admit. How many useless living humans do you know? They go somewhere. Something happens to them. Whatever it is it’s about to happen to 30% of the population. What’s the opposite of survivor bias?

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iso1631 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I’m just afraid that prices of $everything will go up soon and will not come down anymore, like they did after Covid.

Just like the price of labour. Your salary went up and doesn't come down

In the UK weekly earnings increased 34% from December 2019 to December 2025.

CPI went up 30% in the same period.

Obviously that CPI covers things which went up more, and things which went up less, and your personal inflation will be different to everyone elses. Petrol prices end of Jan 2020 were 128p a litre, end of Jan 2025 they are 132p a litre [0]. Indeed petrol prices were 132p in January 2013. If you drive 40,000 miles a year you will thus see far lower inflation than someone who doesn't drive.

[0] https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/fuel-watch/

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roysting 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Traps tend to only go one way.

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cube00 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>If it’s temporary I can live with it.

Given this has been going on for years at this point, the high prices of graphics cards through crypto and now AI, it feels like this is the new normal, forever propped up by the next grift.

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dgxyz 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think this ideology and investment strategy will survive this grift. There's too much geopolitical instability and investment restructuring for it to work again. Everyone is looking at isolationist policies. I mean mastercard/visa is even seen as a risk outside US now.

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lazide 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yup, when you can’t trust partners (or even nominal allies), what else is there but isolationism?

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dgxyz 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's not really isolation but exclusion. Push all risks as far away from you as possible.

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lazide 2 hours ago | parent [-]

When everything ‘outside’ is a risk, what would you call a summary of that policy?

	▲	dgxyz 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well a risk has an abstract level and is either increasing or decreasing. You can look at your risk profile over time and work out how to define policy going forwards. It takes a long time to make changes at country level. US is medium risk and increasing rapidly. Run away quickly.

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iso1631 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

cooperation.

Sure you have to isolate certain rogue states - North Korea, Russia, USA. Always the way.

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Fervicus 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I don't think this ideology and investment strategy will survive this grift

Big tech will be deemed "too big to fail" and will get a bail out. The tax payers will suffer.

	▲	dgxyz 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Big tech has already failed. Which is why it got into politics.

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buran77 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I’m just afraid that prices of $everything will go up soon and will not come down anymore, like they did after Covid.

That's how inflation works. In this case it seems more narrow though, there's hope the prices will go down. Especially if the AI hype finds a reason to flounder.