Damn. Our global economy is teetering on just in time supply chains.
It’s okay we just need to build community fabs. Anyone know how to build a fab?
That’s easy: start like a shed and add machinery after finishing the roof.
This isn’t sustainable. Almost all of our infrastructure runs on computers and eventually it will reach a point where you have a computer in charge of vital infrastructure that won’t be able to buy replacement part and it’ll just fail.
nah all of the datacenters they build for AI, will come to use then.
they will say"Need computing? Don’t worry, just rent from us, for an ever increasing and enshittifying subscription"
We can’t even get them to upgrade our infrastructure to the 21st century in some cases so good luck with that. We still got shit running on Windows 7 or even Windows XP.
Windows 7. Don’t moan, it was the last good windows. Plus all the themes and hacks you could get for XP. Times were good
Aaron lot of out infrastructure still uses floppy discs.
Yup
Glad I’m stocked on memory cards that should last me for a while.
There is, however, a bigger problem that’s not addressed - manufacturers seemingly only playing nice to big corporations while screwing the end customer.
It’s mask off time for capitalism. Business to person sales are no longer lucrative. All the money is in company to company now. See AI companies buying out entire present and future stock of PC parts until 2030. Regular people are no longer needed in this form of society. That’s why the market goes up while job numbers and employment go down. The economy can now support itself without anyone else.
Well eventually someone has to consume something for all of this to make sense, no?
Also isn’t this more the result of unhinged capitalism without any real workers pushback?
Nope. This can keep going on. Big businesses with all the capital will continue doing trade exclusively with other big businesses and government. They don’t need our money anymore. And it’s not like we’re really going to have any trivial amounts of money anyways.
They don’t need our money anymore because they’ve already taken so much of our money.
And what does that money represent anymore at that point?
Seems too many have forgotten that its the peasant’s labor that gives money any value.
Money doesn’t produce anything.
What’s the value of a dollar if it can’t buy you bread?
That sounds like some future Quarter’s problem
Its the only place left to get huge sums of money, we’re in the end game of capitalism
I work in a photostore, and the prices for fast sd-cards are getting ridiculous. Every time I scan one in the cash register I am almost scared of telling them the price.
I can’t imagine this is good for consumers.
Dw guys, you can all just sit at home and watch as your world is scrapped for parts. Just… Keep protesting, I’m sure your gov will start listening to you any second now. Ah it’s just memory cards, why get into a stink about the ramifications of that…
Imagine how expensive they would price the vita memory card if it came out right now 🤣
thumb drives don’t need no ssd. backup my mp3 collection and give to friends for safekeeping. $5/32gig
- due to move to the cloud
Imagine if they were this clever during the crypto boom…
