I agree. It hasn't been a "free" market in a long time. It's a market dominated by overly-huge multinational corporations. Venture capitalism is impossible at this point. Beware those who defend Neoliberalism because Neoliberalism is only "good" for those who are already wealthy. I write "good" in quotes because more often than not, their profit increase doesn't really benefit them one bit because there's no way that your lifestyle really changes once you have $20,000,000 in the bank simply by accumulating more.
A reply ripe with wisdom.
Keynesian Economics is what we used to have. It's a far more effective way to implement capitalism than Neoliberalism ever was. It's what the Nordic countries still use and look at how great they are. The only metric in which they don't score highly is corruption. We could learn so much from them.
Sounds like a great metric not to score high in, at least in my little mind.
I agree with you but it makes me wonder why nVidia scrapped Quadro.
Yeah, I was completely floored when they said that it was better to buy the RTX 3080 (starting at $1,630) with 10GB than the RX 5800 XT (starting at $1,500) with 16GB. I just look at those and I could easily tell that the life of the RTX 3080 was severely limited by its 10GB framebuffer.
Buying what you think is best for you rather than buying what you think will make you look better than everyone else is a great tactic. At least, you end up satisfied with what you have.
Narcissists always think that just because they like something that it's "obviously" the best, eh? Narcissists also try to impress people by telling them that they have two RTX 3090s.
In some respects, I feel sorry for them because when the next latest, greatest model comes along, there's something compelling them to get that, otherwise, they won't be satisfied. And that, not ever being satisfied, must be difficult.
I can't agree. The difference between nVidia and Compaq is that Compaq was surrounded by competitors like the aforementioned Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Toshiba, Lenovo, Packard-Bell, Toshiba, Dell, Everex and Gateway. The only competitor to nVidia is ATi and (to some marginal degree, Intel) and when there are only two, no matter how bad one behaves, there are still fools who will only buy their products. Look at how successful Apple is no matter how many d!ck moves they pull.
The situation is different, I agree, however, my bet is that consumers get fed up with the market situation and find alternative means - such as buying from the used market, or, more simply as you did buying what is best for them and that may be from the used market, a competing brand (even if it is not the "best" in the eyes of reviewers. In either respect, it takes business away from what manufacturers are shoving down the throat of the marketplace, and ultimately, it takes power away from the manufacturers.
People got fed up with paying "Compaq" prices and found alternatives - where ever they could, and thus, "Compaq" is now a ghost of Christmas Past.
Sounds a lot like General Motors.
Good guess, but it is not. I prefer not to say who it is because I would prefer to remain as anonymous as possible.
Yup, they've become so powerful that instead of being forced to bend to the will of the market, they're able to bend the market to their will. That completely defeats the purpose of free enterprise to begin with. They also snuff out any attempts by upstarts so there's no more Venture Capitalism either.
Yes, and yet somehow, we have those that see this situation as the "Free Market".
I know how it operates and I know that it's completely different from how it's supposed to operate.
Or at least how we
would like the market to operate.
Cut and paste: The lazy man's way to "forum".
You're probably giving too much credit there. You used the word "think".
No comment. My post would probably get pulled - again.
What would we ever do without you Cap?
TS would be completely different without him! We are endlessly enriched by his insight.
