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Pumping the bubble now, pay later (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 40 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Ok, how is this not illegal? Buying up all the supply to prevent competitors from buying any, even when you can't use it yourself. There's gotta be some anticompetitive regulation that would cover this

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  • [–] 50 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Gonna need a functional government with a functioning regulatory body for that.

    Edit: also, Congress seems to be able to just lasso anyone and pull them into a hearing to make a show of damn near anything. We could really use one of those for this (and many other) boondongles right now.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    How could congress possibly keep white collar crime in check when they're already so busy enabling fascism?

    (the same fascism which is also being bankrolled by those same tech oligarchs, by the way)

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    And they were even real sneaky about it by buying up from the two largest global suppliers at the same time in secret so that neither knew they were buying up the whole global supply. This probably is technically illegal, but the US doesn't enforce shit like this.

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