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SirFattyyesterday at 8:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

"memory manufacturers have been operating on the margins of profitability for quite a while now."

The manufacturers are scumbags is more likely answer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal


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timschmidtyesterday at 9:07 PM

I don't disagree per-se, but this is the sort of thing which happens when only a few businesses exist in a commodity market with high entry costs. IOW, it's not great, but it is predictable. See: Oil.

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testing22321yesterday at 9:24 PM

You mean “capitalists”.

Maximizing profit is the only sane way to play a rigged game