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Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse
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this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2026
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Way, way back, capitalism was a version of “the customer is always right.” Various companies would compete to sell a product at the right price point and quality the customer could accept. It wasn’t perfect, but it was pointed mostly the right direction.
Now capitalism is just the few major companies competing to see who can make the biggest cash grab and fuck the regular customer with prices, fees, and enshittification. Now we have dystopian monopolies divorced from the consumers.
You could go further and say what's happening now isn't capitalism at all. Yanis Varoufakis calls the modern world economy "technofeudalism": it's controlled by information hypercompanies like Amazon, Google, and Apple, that make money not by producing anything, but by controlling the flow of information between consumers and producers, and charging producers rent for access to consumers.
If you're an app developer, you pay Google and Apple whatever they ask, and you follow their rules, or you don't get to sell your product in their app stores; if you sell products, you give Amazon their cut, or you don't get to sell in their market. And because Google and Apple and Amazon have so effectively entrapped customers, capitalists who don't agree to their terms can't get to their consumers at all.
Capitalists aren't the masters of the economy - they're vassals. They pay their technofeudal lords their tribute, their 30% cut of revenue, and compete with each other for the remaining scraps. And then they raise prices and cut wages, squeeze their workers and exploit their consumers even more, in order to make enough money to survive at all.
"Actually, real capitalism has never been tried"
I don't think that's what they were saying, but I also think you probably don't care.