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Re:Lyft laying off 13% of staff by eric-hu on Thursday November 03, 2022 @01:37PM (#33454580)
> Pet conspiracy theory: boom/bust cycles are not only inevitable, but desirable to some extent.

I wouldn’t call this a conspiracy theory at all. The founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world, spent time and money to publish this idea in various forms. I learned about it from here:

https://youtu.be/PHe0bXAIuk0

There’s more to this idea—-the long term debt cycle—-but the premise is exactly what you stated. There are benefits to both the boom and bust phases of the economy.

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