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Re:A few points about the “tech bubble” debate by jerf on Sunday March 27, 2011 @09:56PM (#2376768)
There is a strange and powerful drive to be the first person to declare that something has jumped the shark. I don't know exactly what it is about the Internet that has done this, but the time it takes for someone to leap up and declare that something is "over" just keeps going down, to the point that it has now reached somewhat absurd levels. Maybe we're in a bubble, maybe not, but either way the declaration seems to be getting made on awfully scanty evidence... but it's important to be first.

Of course on a long enough time scale a bubble in tech is inevitable almost no matter how you slice it.

Re:A few points about the “tech bubble” debate by BenWGarton on Sunday March 27, 2011 @10:09PM (#2376815)
I think that it isn't necessarily to be the first to declare it, but people want too see it coming. Where the first tech bubble surprised a lot of people and they lost money. If you know your going to lose some, it doesn't hurt as bad. Kind of like playing roulette. You expect to lose but it feels good when you win.