I’m under the impression that Google deliberately hinders their YouTube platform just because you have ad-blockers. With videos taking time to buffer, seems to signal this, because it almost makes up nearly the amount of time for when ads take if you had to watch them. So since you’re ad-blocking and they don’t like that, they’ll make your experience miserable until you want to pay their service or not use ad-block.
Bailouts happen when the overall economic effect of letting a company fail would be more painful than using tax dollars to save it.
The number of employees at the institution in trouble is a factor, as it was with some of the banks in 2008, but think of all the wild deals AI companies are making for memory, hard drives, and data center construction. Each of those adds to the bottom line of other companies and their suppliers and subcontractors. If those contracts aren’t honored, many of those smaller companies lower down on the food chain are going to suffer, possibly go out of business, putting their employees out of work. And that’s not even considering the effect it’ll have on hedge funds and other financial institutions that hold stock in AI.
If it seems insane for AI companies to commit to huge purchases and massive projects before they have a clear revenue stream, it’s probably because it is, but if they can inflate the bubble enough they effectively hold both the US and global economy hostage. Since the US government clearly favors business over people, and so many tech companies have swung right to appease the orange lump currently in office, they stand a pretty good chance of getting bailed out and later subsidized in the event of a crash.