Lots of small companies won’t survive the components price hike and shortage

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      2 days ago

      Lack of regulations resulting in a rampant speculation like the above is by definition one of the core tenets of free market. That free market just don’t work for people like me or you.

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        People think “free” means “I can do whatever I want,” but really it usually means “people with more power than me can do whatever they want to me.”

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          It’s both, it’s a nice illustration of how free is a free market. You could for example speculate on RAM trade or anything else, but the dude with billions of dollars can literally control entire trade.