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But why would you, the corrupt cartel/cabal of relevant oligarchs, want to solve this?
You're just describing whole sectors of products that can be financed via loans, rented out, made part of some tiered subscription program, something like that.
You will own nothing, and you will be a broke, compliant, debt-slave.
Hypercapitalism -> Technofeudalism.
Enshittify everything.
The problem is that it will impact other businesses as well. If this was just going to impact consumers, that would be one thing, but businesses need fleets of vehicles, fleets of phones, laptops, and network equipment. Suddenly not being able to get those things at all because of a RAM crunch is absolutely a disaster in the making. As much as it seems fun to pretend that all the oligarchs are in it together, they're just as bloodthirsty for each other as they are for us.
I mean, the RAM manufacturers literally have been prosecuted for cartel-like collusion, multiple times, over many years.
I'm not just saying that as a framing device, they literally are a cartel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal
But more generally... yeah, I mean, that could mess up other industries, and also yes, the oligarchs in a cartel do still have power struggles.
We, us, our lives, the economy in general... thats all just the battlefield, the collateral damage, of their power struggles.
I guess you could say this could pretty much be our real world version of some kind of 'first corporate war' from various cyberpunk canons.
Yep, these people have way too much power, and... I guess it remains to be seen if any governmemt will actually do something about that, but I'm prettu sure they basically won't.