[daedrdev]

I really dont understand why this article is waxing about long term economic-philospohical trends when the gdp decline is clearly due to tariffs. Like this is not a pattern, its bad government policy that did not have any guarantee of happening.

[unsnap_biceps]

Tariffs have a huge hand in it, but the government shuttering large amounts of programs and firings is also GDP declining.

[zevets]

I think it's operating on the assumption that the VC donor money, and the valley's pivot to defense spending is the VCs getting "ahead" of the problem that "AI" isn't going to produce trillions in _profits_ for investors.