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Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by gizajob on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:56AM (#50494694)
> But customers having to pay more due to NVIDIA milking them - now that's something that really would require mandatory jail time for all NVIDIA

It’s the task of every capitalist business in existence to “milk” their customers for the maximum amount of money they can for any given product. Everyone in business would be in jail by your metric.

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by FabCH on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:07AM (#50494746)
This isn’t true. The somewhat infamous court case that established this is a USA only thing.

Business are absolutely free to set as their task things like “long term sustainability”, or “quality” if they so choose

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by sans_souse on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:35AM (#50494898)
Sure, not all businesses, but just like the consumer social classes their is the same sort of heirarchy in business, the top n percentile including big tech, oil, large chains, etc, are absolutely operating in the milking game.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by FabCH on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:11AM (#50495092)
Yeah but that’s a choice. Not a universal law.

The society can easily change this simply by actually enforcing the anti-trust laws that are already on the books.

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by sans_souse on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:47AM (#50495284)
I'm not arguing the on-paper, I am saying in reality, it's not exactly looking all fair and even as intended; en contraire + it looks much the oposite.. in my opinion.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by Fricken on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:19AM (#50495141)
When capitalism is working as intended everything is covered in a layer of soot and 10 year olds are logging 60 hour work weeks
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by SturgeonsLaw on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:29AM (#50494862)
Not everyone, we just need to jail a few executives and the rest of them will get the message
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by throwawaysoxjje on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:35AM (#50494895)
Well that sounds hyperbolic considering “capitalist business” runs the gamut between “trillion dollar company” and “guy down the street doing this in his spare time”