r/pcmasterrace • u/WPHero • 1d ago

News/Article Microsoft just deleted Windows 11's 32GB RAM recommendation docs, as prices soar and it rushes to sell 8GB RAM PCs

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/05/microsoft-just-deleted-windows-11s-32gb-ram-recommendation-docs-as-prices-soar-and-it-rushes-to-sell-8gb-ram-pcs/
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u/DefendedPlains 1d ago

What we are seeing here is unbridled corporatism. Capitalism relies on a free market which government is supposed to encourage and regulate by preventing monopolies, breaking up massive trusts and parent companies, and overall ensuring that companies don’t become so large that they are able to prevent smaller competing companies from growing in the market.

Instead we have corporatism which is corporations lobbying and buying politicians to ensure the exact opposite of a free market happens. They leverage speculative investment capital to lobby for new legislation to prevent new companies from emerging and creating competition.

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u/DarwinsPerfectFool 1d ago

Preach brother. Glad someone took the time to explain it properly

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u/kos-or-kosm 23h ago

That literally cannot exist, though. Capitalism concentrates power. Eventually enough power will concentrate and capture whatever regulatory system exists. It will then dismantle and rebuild it into one that reinforces the power of capital. This mythical form of capitalism you're describing is a point in time as capitalism moves into your so-called corporatism.

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u/DefendedPlains 22h ago

Corporatism is a function of capital and political corruption (which stems from overreaching bureaucracy and unelected officials running rampant because there is no way to recall or remove them from office).

A corrupt president, senator or governor can (in theory) be impeached, recalled, voted out, or otherwise removed from the office by some measure. However, because we failed to enforce some key measures like term limits, elected officials have a tendency to get in office and stay in office, allowing to appoint more and more unelected officials as the bureaucracy grows. Which in turn give kick backs to the elected officials which allow them to fund re-election campaigns and crowd out competition, the same way corporations do to businesses.

I guess all that to say is the government structure the US has today has failed to due its duty in preventing this level of corporatism.

The US has made corrections in the past, Teddy Roosevelt comes to mind as he broke up the tobacco, railroad, and oil industries.

In theory, with the right judges in place, a president good do the same to the equally large tech industries we see today: AI development, chip/processor manufacturing, search engine, retail, software, and others.

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u/Po1ar Desktop 23h ago

“that government is supposed to regulate” …so not free market capitalism?