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Re:The RAM shortage could last years by jandrewrogers on Sunday April 19, 2026 @09:01PM (#47829208)
Forecasting demand 5 years into the future is intrinsically highly unreliable. It doesn’t matter if it is capitalism or a command economy. The bet is always going to be risky and someone will have to pay for that risk.

At least with capitalism you have many different people with different perspectives on the risk making independent bets. That mitigates the more extreme negative outcomes.

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Re:The RAM shortage could last years by DwnVoteHoneyPot on Sunday April 19, 2026 @09:50PM (#47829485)
To add to that, investors who do make the bet get punished for over-building, which is better than tax payers paying for it. And before someone says it, big corps do get bailed out by gov't, but that's definitely goes against capitalist ideas.
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Re:The RAM shortage could last years by PunchyHamster on Monday April 20, 2026 @04:44AM (#47831704)
Also it is government job to regulate. Monopolies should be busted, and behaviour like that should be culled. But US govt is full on AI to mask them cratering their own economy.
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