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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