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asa400last Friday at 8:09 PM3 repliesview on HN

Serious question: should the principals of the RAM manufacturers be jailed?


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sh34rlast Friday at 9:22 PM

I believe it depends on which parties are responsible for the criminal antitrust violations. Is it the manufacturers abusing monopoly power, or is it OpenAI abusing monopsony power?

I’m not a lawyer or a forensic accountant, but given how remarkably stable the RAM market was until SCAMA disrupted it, I’m inclined to think the answer to your question is a resounding “no.”

estimator7292last Friday at 10:14 PM

The ones that collude to fix prices need to be in jail, yes.

asa400last Saturday at 1:11 AM

Clarifying because I think the downvoters maybe misunderstood the nature of my question: I meant, in the opinion of the parent commenter should the principals of Samsung etc. be jailed? I wasn’t taking a position myself, just asking what they thought.