Well, that’s just really shitty.

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    TL:DW;

    Mr. Nexus still thinks its news that, under capitalism, production of luxury goods will always be sold to the highest bidder and not “the masses”

    I didn’t watch it either. But its about Micron no longer selling consumer ram in favor of the AI industry customer.

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      So there’s three companies that make almost all the DRAM and they’re now all ramping down production of consumer RAM.

      They’ve also done price fixing in the past.

      I don’t think much math needs to be done.

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        Micron took millions in tax payer dollars from the CHIPS Act to build fabs. To then turn around and shut down their consumer market is kind of fucked. That’s a little more than a nothing burger.

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        Well I mean the 3 DRAM manufacturers that matter all made the decision to ramp down consumer RAM manufacturing. OpenAI alone is buying up 40% of all global DRAM production.

        Given all the financial fuckery going on with OpenAI and the AI and hardware industries in general, I’m pretty sure this is intentional price fixing.

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            7 hours ago

            Just accepting how fucked things are does not advance change. Others being concerned about it benefits you, so I’m not sure what you’re complaining about.

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              It’s just that society has much bigger problems than the price of ram sticks.

              Like the price of housing, the price of food, transportation…

              I don’t find this even worth mentioning, that’s just it.

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                So, you’re going with the slippery slope: There are so many other problems, why worry about a new one?

                I’m homeless and struggle to afford food, so I’m aware of the larger issues in play. The problem here is that we’re adding a new one atop societal decay. Handwaving each new fuckup away is how we succumb to a future without agency.

                Now is the time to be shouting from the rooftops, not giving up.