• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Should or not doesn’t matter. We need RAM and we will start buying Chinese if that’s all that’s available. American corporations are already lining up. We have a lot less financial luxury to play ethics than the corporations that disappeared the consumer RAM supply.

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      2 days ago

      You just described the exact problem. Corporations chasing cheap supply, consumers following because they have no choice, and somehow ethics never gets to be anyone’s department. That’s not a counterargument, that’s the mechanism.

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        2 days ago

        That’s not a counterargument, that’s the mechanism.

        Yup. It’s just capitalism. Resources are distributed on the basis of profit on capital. Any other consideration is secondary or tertiary, or non-existent. Anyone unhappy with it should be actively looking into alternatives and organizing for it. I am unhappy with it and I’m doing some of that.