Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices

• underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  if they’re still around when the financial shell game they’re playing finally comes to a stop. who am i kidding the government will bail them out.

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Using your money.

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    • underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      if the US government were actually funded by taxes, everything the government does would be with “my money”

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      • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well, if you’re a citizen, the country is yours, and the government is there to manage it, but some assholes in power managed to convince people that it’s the other way around

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Profits for me, losses for thee

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    • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That only works if we (the collective we) have more money. If a rich person has more $$ than a small country that means the effect we have is equivalent.

      That’s why micron is doing what its doing. We are no longer the customer. They voted for us.

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• DScratch@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Of course, not all the companies survive and now there’s decreased competition, so we can shove prices up a little bit further

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Absolutely

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