Xaiyeon

Into The New Era Upon Us (concerning AI affecting everything)...

It’s increasingly clear that what we’re observing in the AI and computing markets resembles structural concentration and coordinated economic incentives rather than a classic financial “bubble” that will suddenly burst. Historically, certain industries have demonstrated how concentrated power structures can shape product lifecycles, pricing, and competitive behavior over extended periods.

One early example often discussed in economic and industrial history literature is the Phoebus light-bulb cartel—a formal agreement among major manufacturers in the 1920s and 1930s to standardize product lifespans and prices. This coordination became synonymous with the origins of planned obsolescence and has been analyzed extensively as a case where firms cooperated to support higher return on investment at the cost of product durability.

In the pharmaceutical industry, particularly generic drugs, scholars and competition authorities have documented repeated instances of price coordination and market allocation that resemble cartel behavior. Academic analyses and enforcement cases show how incentives within certain segments of the drug supply chain can lead to anticompetitive outcomes that persist over time.

These historical and contemporary examples are significant because they illustrate that coordinated or oligopolistic market structures often don’t “pop” like speculative bubbles. Instead, they continue to generate profits and influence market norms for years, even decades.

When it comes to artificial intelligence and the broader computing ecosystem, current research in economics and technology policy points to increasing concentration at key layers—especially in advanced semiconductor manufacturing, graphics processing units (GPUs), and large-scale AI infrastructure. These concentrations can create conditions where firms have sustained pricing power and where innovation cycles are shaped more by strategic positioning and ecosystem lock-in than by short-term speculation.

In this context, characterizing AI as “not a bubble” is consistent with both historical patterns of sustained market coordination and contemporary analyses of industry structure. Rather than a one-off speculative frenzy, AI may be acting as a catalyst within an evolving global computing industry that reflects deeper, long-term economic dynamics as the some corrupt and evil companies buy and bid each other in control of technology companies (via stocks, crypto, estates, etc.).

Although I wouldn't hope to see a day like this happen. The state of Earth is sadly corrupted and the people in-charge know by heart that what they are doing always works. What the wealthy elites are planning and executing is just of a broader plan. Now you may think, but the stock market is doing so well and so is crypto? Because the wealthy elites literally control and create money and are racing to own all technology companies and create their own version of either a Utopia or Dystopia. People should think carefully about the bigger picture and the future that lies ahead instead of hastily jumping to emotional conclusions (sometimes I do that too).

To further clarify, people don't say they hate lightbulbs or pharmaceuticals as much as they say they hate AI; because AI has such an enormous impact on everything (that's why it's a new era). These people hate AI because life is evolving; similar to the people who hate if they lived from stone age to iron age, etc. This is a new age we are entering; haters perish and adopters flourish that's (sadly) how life is.

Thank you, if anyone bothers to read ^~^7

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Xaiyeon

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