Its stock market manipulation.

The second they don't look like an exponential growth curve, they are over-valued and crash.

Nah, they're addicted to being first and everyone's running this race so you gotta race faster than them. They know a collapse is coming, but those only affect poors and the collapse will make subsequent investing much cheaper.

If you're thinking about consequences, you're not doing capitalism well enough to be on top anyways.

No, Microsoft has enough, they've just slop coded so much bloat in that they choose to not address while piling more and more vibe coding tools on top (which is why they are spinning up more capacity, to feed LLM slop code into).

Sounds like they do now tho.