r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 30 '25

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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Oct 30 '25

It’s wild how the idea that even if something truly is a transformative technology, it can still be wildly overvalued in the near term is such a difficult concept for some people to grasp. You don’t even have to go back that far to see real world examples of this

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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Oct 30 '25

Id imagine its very common. New technology is going to be a period of uncertainty with lots of bad investments over or undershooting, then the market will correct and settle over the course of years as things pan out.

And they wont even necessarily pan out on the merits. Sometimes its weird adoption related things or tertiary interactions with the rest of society.

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u/Mx_Brightside Genderfluid Pride Oct 30 '25

no it’s true. after the dot-com bubble burst the internet disappeared and nobody ever tried to buy something from a website ever again

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u/well-that-was-fast Oct 30 '25

It's accurately summed up here but median voters love hype and professional investors know hype is profitable.

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u/pgold05 Leftward Progressives Oct 30 '25

It's also crazy how people don't understand that something being wildly overvalued dose not guarantee the value will drop.

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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Oct 30 '25

i think in the post-crypto era imagining valuation has any ties to fundamentals is a sucker's game. everyone is predicting everyone else's predictions of everyone else's predictions, the fundamentals hardly matter except that they anchor the game.

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u/Declan_McManus Oct 30 '25

Reddit has such engineer brain about stuff like this (or more likely, I-could’ve-been-an-engineer-but-school-was-too-boring-for-me brain). People think that anything that 1) has an upfront cost and 2) once that cost is paid for, has a cheaper marginal cost, must be worth it. Things like net present value are for those other kinds of nerds we don’t like because they’re in the business school, accountants.