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Lots of small companies won't survive the components price hike and shortage

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Nothing free about us markets lol

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

Lack of regulations resulting in a rampant speculation like the above is by definition one of the core tenets of free market. That free market just don't work for people like me or you.

[-] Signtist@bookwyr.me 10 points 3 weeks ago

People think "free" means "I can do whatever I want," but really it usually means "people with more power than me can do whatever they want to me."

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's both, it's a nice illustration of how free is a free market. You could for example speculate on RAM trade or anything else, but the dude with billions of dollars can literally control entire trade.

[-] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No, there's plenty of regulation, it's corrupt regulation and that's not free market.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

In this case it's precisely lack of regulation. There's no law forbidding doing this. Now imagine how shit it was with essentials (Irish famine for example).

Go ahead and start your own memory fab then, there's no regulation stopping you apparently.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You seriously can't make a difference between lack of regulation and lack of capital? What do you even think free market is?

No you're right you just need the cash.

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