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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by sharts on Friday November 21, 2025 @06:43PM (#46010462)
how is this centralized planning? It’s a corporate decision making operating in a free market to optimize for what majority shareholders want (though the majority of shares are owned by few).
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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by xpe on Friday November 21, 2025 @07:50PM (#46010937)
I think the implied thought (?) is there is a similarity between central planning and oligopoly bandwagoning. To my eye, the causes and dynamics are different enough to warrant bucketing them separately.
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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by wat10000 on Friday November 21, 2025 @09:16PM (#46011454)
Your parenthetical is how. It's not completely centralized, but it is being decided by a very small number of people.
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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by yunnpp on Saturday November 22, 2025 @12:03AM (#46012279)
A free market where the government participates with billions in investment and tax cuts, yes.
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Re:Samsung's 60% DRAM Price Hike Signals a New Phase of Glob... by 1718627440 on Saturday November 22, 2025 @02:24PM (#46017487)
It's centralized vs. decentralized not public vs. private. A centralized private planning committee is still centralized.
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