• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      I keep imagining some stock financial ticker tape system that keeps operating on its own even after we’re gone and our environment can no longer sustain life.

      Nothing is alive any more … but the ticker tape keeps pumping along, raising the price of the whatever its counting and generating imaginative wealth that no one will ever understand.

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        Most trades now are done by bots looking at ticker symbols, they don’t need human intervention. The human race can vanish from the Earth and the bots will keep trading as long as the datacenters have power.

      • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I saw a depressing comic like that… civilization has collapsed, no humans left, and the invisible hand of the market keeps raising prices.

        I tried to find it for you but there are a lot of invisible hand of the market comics and I’m not good enough to find it :(