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Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by entropyneur on Saturday November 14, 2026 @04:36AM (#50495523)
I don't understand. You can't possibly make more money by buying from yourslef via proxies. Yes, that would raise prices but you could have just raised them yourself at will to the same effect. Is the article alleging a stock pumping scheme?
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by Towaway69 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @05:07AM (#50495679)
You raise prices on the back of scarcity that you quote your customers "sorry but because there are so few GPUs and your neighbour is paying double as much, that becomes the base price" - that the neighbour is actually getting a cut isn't mentioned, that scarcity is faked by investing in companies that buy GPUs (perhaps only on paper) isn't mentioned, and the fact that it's all just pure capitalism and how it is played is ignored.

Why are folks getting all excited? This is the game called capitalism that we all wanted and that we all know is the best ever system discovered to rule over others. Folks are getting annoyed because they didn't profit from it.

Just like Amazon becoming a loss leader in many markets off the back of AWS profits. They enter a random market, undercut the prices until the competition is removed and then they raise their prices. Rinse and repeat. All because they are making huge profits on AWS and can cross finance this strategy.

No one is complain about that. Because Amazon is on the good side of capitalism. Why Nvidia is now on the bad side of capitalism - who knows.