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[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

"Sure, it's a component that doesn't have the huge drive to actually cause a surge in prices... but since we're already raising lots of other prices there's no good reason to not simply fuck our customers on this to make a bit more profit."

[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ahhh good ol' market manipulation... The one true innovation of capitalism.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

That's not true at all. Sure, you can argue that most inventions that were created under capitalism would have been created under most other economic ideologies, but definitely not all of them.

We wouldn't have private equity groups without capitalism, and those are changing our lives every single day.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago

We're getting less sales because only the stupid, rich, or desperate are building at the moment, lets jack up prices, that'll work…

Morons (or conspirators in destroying the PC platform to make those datacentres profitable, or both).

[–] 1337ESTbun@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago