Re:Why were there never dot.com movies?
by dragonwriter on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:44AM
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There are several (both about the boom and the bust), but probably less than there otherwise would have been because during the boom it was the new normal (it, and the changes it wrougt, was context in a lot of movies while it was happening, but the boom itself wasn’t often the direct subject) and after... well, the 2000 election drama followed by 9/11 followed by the series of wars following that event drew a whole lot of the media (including movies) focus that otherwise would have gone to looks back at the dot-com boom & bust.
> and then it shattered so ridiculously and kinda of setup the housing bubble and ZIRP period.
Not really, the long-term hollowing out of the economy outside of a very narrow slice at the top that culminated in housing collapse and Great Recession was more a result of tax and other policy shifts that led to the 2001-2007 expansion having horrible distributional characteristics, and not to the dot-com bust itself and the short and shallow 2001 recession it produced.
> and then it shattered so ridiculously and kinda of setup the housing bubble and ZIRP period.
Not really, the long-term hollowing out of the economy outside of a very narrow slice at the top that culminated in housing collapse and Great Recession was more a result of tax and other policy shifts that led to the 2001-2007 expansion having horrible distributional characteristics, and not to the dot-com bust itself and the short and shallow 2001 recession it produced.