you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    In the past there were commons which means land that anyone could use. You might know it from the tragedy of commons. A thought experiment which was opposite to any empirical data but that was used to privatize these commons even tho worked very well in reality.

    Back to RAM. In order to privatize it, it was to be in common ownership aka socialized before that.

    Feudalism on the other hand means that the people living on the land belong to the land in the sense that when you get the land, the people must stay but they will pay tribute to you. This is different from slavery where the master could sell people individually and different from capitalism where you can choose who exploits you. The RAM situation is closer to capitalism than to feudalism.

    This is just me overanalyzing for fun. No hill I would die on. Pretty sure you could argue any other way.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago

    To further stretch these tortured metaphors:

    System integrated memory is like feudalism, the ram stays bound to the machine.

    Buying RAM dims as lots of individuals and pairs like they are on a ship bound for Rio de Janeiro in 1820, is what they are doing now. Just stack them up in a warehouse until they put them to work in the data center/plantation where they labor away or wear out or the market collapses.

  • source
  • parent