alt Hacker NewsThe only way to combat this is the same way to combat toilet paper shortages.
Market says the more you buy the better pricing you get. Once you start capturing large market share of the product, the price should go up and not down; exponentially.
Example, a person that owns 10 houses means that they are restricting the ability of others to own a single home. By increasing the cost of excessive product ownership ... it will reduce the amount of product that people will hoard and allow others to gain access to it.
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>The only way to combat this is the same way to combat toilet paper shortages.
I buy one hard disk, AI company busy 40% of global supply. Me not buying that one hard disk is not going to change anything.
>According to Western Digital, thanks to a surge in demand from its enterprise customers, the consumer market now accounts for just 5 percent of the company's revenue.
This only works if you exclude datacenters Georg who lives in a server rack and buys 10,000 hard drives a day.
Unfortunately, there are several such outlier entities which collectively control enough resources to price literally everyone else out.
The laws of supply and demand are not optional.
If you try to use government to force reality to conform to your idea of how things should work you're just going to get 1,000 companies buying 10,000 hard disks each rather than 10 companies buying 1,000,000 each. And if you try to outlaw that somehow then the market will just route around your new scheme in another way, creating even more unintended consequences in the process.
If you must meddle, you're much better off working with market forces rather than trying to fight against them.