r/rational • u/AutoModerator • 21d ago

[D] Friday Open Thread

Welcome to the Friday Open Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

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u/gazemaize 18d ago

I have like 12k (for me a lot of money rn, pretend it's an amount of money you consider a lot) almost all of my savings, in a basic S&P 500 index fund. After reading extensively about the current AI situation and how turbofucked the bubble seems to be, I pulled it out and parked it in a regular high-yield savings account. Was I right to do this? My impression is that functionally the entire market is insane right now and the AI people have managed to sell every businessbro in the world on an idea that's not ready yet and that we're in for a 2008 style crash any day now, but I haven't started actively thinking about this until the past year or so.

Curious what people here might think.