I mean, the RAM manufacturers literally have been prosecuted for cartel-like collusion, multiple times, over many years.

I’m not just saying that as a framing device, they literally are a cartel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal

But more generally… yeah, I mean, that could mess up other industries, and also yes, the oligarchs in a cartel do still have power struggles.

We, us, our lives, the economy in general… thats all just the battlefield, the collateral damage, of their power struggles.

I guess you could say this could pretty much be our real world version of some kind of ‘first corporate war’ from various cyberpunk canons.

Yep, these people have way too much power, and… I guess it remains to be seen if any governmemt will actually do something about that, but I’m prettu sure they basically won’t.