All money is a merry-go-round when you get down to it.

That doesn't mean the wheels won't fall off, they fall off pretty regularly as is.

The difference between this loop and the previous loops, is that people making the tech used to be pretty straightforward ("invest in me, your money will let me make a machine that lets me fire 90% of my peasants and we can share in the savings"), while today they're all "invest in me, either this will kill everyone or just make the concept of money irrelevant, either way rotflmao".