The Long Tail Snap Back of Corpo Greed

For years we have seen younger and younger shareholders becoming overly wealthy and driving more and more money up the ranks and out of the hands of producers. Merit and talent are no longer the measures of predictable success. It is all about capital and ownership. The break-in, burn-out, cash-out, coast leadership cycles have fed mammoth companies lurking in the swamps of major economies. 

The pull-up economy is finally showing the signs of failure that some economists warned of. Lower birth rates, lower rates of innovation, and the desperate hail mary pass to AI and automation are signs that the producer class is drying up. No where is this more evident than video games. The shareholders outpaced the producers and companies like Embracer Holdings didn't get the memo. Games are taking longer to make because there are fewer people to make them.

The madness behind the AI boom is really the mea culpa of a management class that is so disconnected that they can't see the screws they are driving into their own feet. AI data center hardware gluttony has driven up the prices of the hardware AI-users need to make commercial AI profitable. Clair Obscur cant sell a game to people that dont have the computers to run the game. That is if the development team has the work stations to make the game in the first place.

Its like buying all the wood to dam a river so you can charge for lake property and access, but not leaving enough wood for people to build houses or boats. The US economy is barrelling its way into making a lake that is surrounded by desert, without even trying to maintain the slightest oasis to support the value of the lake. Instead it is a mirage, a drinkless body of fetid water. The question is when will the architects realize they made a lake so they can drown in a desert.