@pluralistic Well, *cough* that's true for a surprising amount of goods and transactions today, just because it is being bought does not mean that the demand is honest, or that the people would buy the same things if financing or other external guardrails would not guide them.
But #nvidia is worse, they are literally walking the line, but as far as they can get they are literally investing in their own customer, they are basically sending the money in a loop. But hey, it's legal they say.
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