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I am in Japan where they have just discovered a cartel of ice cream manufacturers pushing up prices. Supply and demand. This is capitalism, baby!
This is a lawsuit, right? It'll go through a few judges' hands on appeals and what not and by the time the companies get their slap on the wrist in 2-5 years they will have made so much money it doesn't matter.
This but unironically.
Cartels are illegal for a reason though so interesting to see if the RAM situation has been a cartel.
Supply and demand sounds nice, but then innocent citizens can still get arrested for following their own economic interests and chipping in on a GoFundMe whose only crime was hiring a ninja to threaten these RAM company assholes who are too rich for normal laws to keep them in check.
This is a joke, of course. I would never do anything like that - because I don't understand how BitCoin works. I mean, because of moral and good citizen reasons. That was another joke, your honor.
Of what I've read about Japan, a cartel being considered something bad in the society is an improvement.
Can you elaborate? As someone living in Japan for over 15 years, I'm not sure what you mean? Are you implying we welcomed cartels in the past?
More oligopolies than cartels, but zaibatsu are a common stereotype as something culturally normal for Japan, yes.
Yeah but I didn't think price controlling was that big of a deal because it was always a race to the bottom hence the deflation. They even tried to break up the mobile phone prices by introducing more mvnos. But you're right; now that you mention it, zaibatsu and mega holdings are pretty common in Japan and people don't seem to know or care.