Looking at what's happening with RAM pricing and Crucial being shuttered, the doomer in me thinks they could just pull the same thing with every other PC component. It's not like some plucky band of upstarts can start 3D printing organic free-range FOSS processors, hard drives and motherboards in their garage- all of this shit comes out of a couple of giant plants in Asia. If porky strangles the supply, that's it. In the end all the average joe schmoe will be left with are cloud-based terminals that rely entirely on subscription services and that require strong identification to even use (and that will monitor and log every single fucking thing you do while drowning you in ads)
Wanna install Linux? Go ahead! What are you going to install it on though, your grandpa's old Pentium? 
Wanna ditch subscription services and sail the seas? Oops, it looks like hard drives cost 5,000 dollars and are only sold to enterprise customers. I guess you're not storing that media anywhere
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Yes, I'm just saying we should try to reduce the damage that will come from when the empire goes fully into military-surveillance enterprise, that's probably what will happen with all the jobless people and where they will go or be controlled by.
Washington could even win in the end, there are forces in every nation that are their allies. Including China. I'm probably never affording a computer again either way, so I'll try to contribute to building a world where someone like me in the future can be making fun computer games to play with their friends. I can see that happening too.
America doesn't have an education system and they don't like making stuff themselves, you need time to learn how to do that also, they outsource that to the rest of the world, in order to make their own citizens feel wealthy and happy. I don't want to take that away. I just wish everyone could have that.