Market manipulation that materially harms a segment of our economy should be a federal crime. This motherfucker belongs in prison.
While Jensen can’t be faulted for making these moves because he was keeping the best interests of the company in mind, it’s a stab in the back for gamers and hardware owners who are unable to locate any mouth-watering deals for GPUs or memory because of the perceived shortage.
Uh, yes the fuck he can be faulted for making these moves, because the entire situation was CLEARLY a deeply unsustainable, unethical, and financially risky strategy that effectively amounts to market manipulation and supply-side collusion, which is now demonstrably coming apart at the seams. And according to this article, Huang effectively bullied the then-CFO, who is now the interim CEO, in the interest of getting her to reduce or drop her objections to said shitty business strategy. I guess the silver lining is that he didn’t have an affair with her…?
Honestly, this whole saga is becoming a lurid and graphic demonstration of how caustic tech leadership these days in the US has turned into a cult of personality these days.
Whole lot of words to say “capitalism did gamers dirty!!
” 🎻Tbf, capitalism didn’t just do gamers dirty. The ai bubble and circular financing bullshit is eroding the quality of life of people everywhere
welcome to 3000 BCE. Pharaoh wants his dick wet. something the Nile dried up. Suck dick or starve?
Yea the new CEO (who was the CFO) doesn’t seem all on board with the strategy at all
It will be ultra ironic if Chinese espionage ultimately becomes the catalyst for correcting the engineered tech shortage for individual users.
Ed Zitron is about to go Super Saiyan.
uh, the referenced wsj article doesn’t really talk about this strategy at all. there’s at anecdote about soup, that’s basically it.
Not a single mention of tsmc or silicon excess at all. Wccf writing fanfiction? Wrong source?
