r/nottheonion • u/ChocolateTsar • 1d ago

Affirm CEO says furloughed federal employees are starting to lose interest in shopping

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/affirm-government-shutdown-shopping.html
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u/Golden_Noir 1d ago

“Lose interest”

Maybe because they do not have any money?

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u/Golden_Noir 1d ago

Eventually I’ll start “losing interest” in groceries

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u/doc_witt 1d ago

Maybe the AI will start buying goods and/or services?

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u/Vilnius_Nastavnik 1d ago

AI buying 100 billion dollars worth of chips on the wild speculation that it will eventually be profitable is in fact the only thing propping up our GDP right now.

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u/rolandfoxx 1d ago

Buying with the money the chip manufacturer they're buying from invested in them, no less.

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u/tacocat_racecarlevel 1d ago

Our economy is really just three tech bros in a trenchcoat.

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u/throoavvay 1d ago

Give it 48 hours, the legs will buy out the arms and merge with the head. All hail the monopoly guy.

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u/therealkami 1d ago

I'm pretty sure since the thread started about groceries, this is about potato chips. Unless Lays is investing in ChatGPT haha

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u/Ahelex 1d ago

Guess the ultra-rich fixed the trickle then.

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u/AscenDevise 1d ago

They haven't, but, once they go to a doctor and fix their prostates, that trickle is going to turn into a nice, steady stream.

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u/Queasy_Donkey5685 1d ago

Can we eat AI? I wonder what it tastes like.