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A couple of others I can think of:

  • Crypto-boom of 2016ish: GPUs/mining rigs
  • LLM/AI hype nowish: User generated data
  • 90's dotcom bubble: Server space
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[–] [email protected] 68 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking that, but figured I'd go for input data instead for the sake of variation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Can't sell something they can easily steal and get away with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I can't wait for the bubble to burst, so we can finally get affordable GPU's again

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Affordable GPUs is a thing of the past I'm afraid. Bubble or not I'm afraid they will never come down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

They wont come down. Prices are upwardly sticky. Nvidia and the rest have seen that people will pay those inflated prices, so they have no incentive to lower them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It's been what, 10 years? It wasn't AI that jumped up the prices, before it was crypto, After this it will be something else.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Whenever I played Roller Coaster Tycoon I would jack up the price of umbrellas right before it rained.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Free soda stands. Pay toilets. No exit.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

Ah the Hotel Crapifornia

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

And here I was focusing on making money from the rides like some plebian smoothbrain. Also giving away the maps for free, because my guests always complained about getting lost in my labyrinth of a park with as many rides as I could fit, to the point of basically having four floors/levels in the park.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

When there's an umbrella-rush, sell rain.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

My friend failed at becoming an actor in LA so he started doing prospective actors’ photo shoots

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's actually pretty clever. Especially considering that he tried that avenue for himself and therefore knows what any hopefuls would need. Any idea how he's doing? Is it portraits only, or does he offer additional stuff such as sample tapes?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I believe he expanded beyond headshots and photo shoots and at one point he was even doing sound production for a rapper’s video. Basically wherever he has opportunity to have his career be providing what those still trying to make it big needed

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

When investors are pouring money into tech startups with dubious models, start a bank that connects startups with investors.

Ie Mercury Bank making money hand over fist

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When a housing crash is imminent, it's the self storage businesses that thrive.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

When in Vegas sell light bulbs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Also during the crypto craze: Set up an exchange and charge a small commission on transactions

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

This is identical for online brokers in the stock market. They win based on the number of trades, thus they make as much money in bust as in boom years with people exiting positions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Just make sure it's tamper proof and that you actually can run it competently. Mtgox started as a place to trade MTG cards, and while I'm sure the platform was fine for that, the stakes were substantially higher when they pivoted to crypto. I'm sure you know the rest of the story.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Delivery services and rideshares. People using them make meager wages, but the companies hosting them get all the benefit of people desperate for work or convenience.

Edit: in a similar vein, OnlyFans

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (6 children)

That's just old fashioned exploitation.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)
  • During/after natural disaster, buy cheap land. Probably works during an economic crash too.

  • Protests & Riots happening? Invest in glass companies

  • Cloudy & rainy every day? Sell coffee (looking at you PNW)

  • War happening? Just sell bombs! (see USA) This one is particular good cause you can always start another war. It's just smart business!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's all just regular supply and demand. Doesn't fit the saying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Gold Rush = high demand = invest in (aka buy) shovels

Same thing, no?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No.

Gold rush = a bunch of fools getting hyped up on the latest thing thinking they'll get rich, but almost none of them will.

Selling shovels = not chasing the latest hype, but making money off the fools who chase the latest hype.

I'm not offering an opinion or interpretation of the phrase btw, that's the actual definition.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

In the stock market, there are groups called market makers, that actually buy and sell the stock. They are required to buy and sell, but they maintain price neutral positions and collect a margin on each sale.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

dont see ice cream trucks in the dead of winter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

That's when they should switch to being hot chocolate trucks.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's always GPUs. Crypto boom? GPUs. AI boom? GPUs. PC gaming boom? GPUs. GPUs are so difficult to program effectively that we still probably haven't discovered things they're capable of doing yet. The next major breakthrough in tech, whatever it is, will cause a massive explosion in GPU demand.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Definitely all those Udemy / Coursera / Whatever paid courses for "Data Science", "AI" and whatever else is popular recently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure none of you have any idea what this saying means.

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