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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2026
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People think "free" means "I can do whatever I want," but really it usually means "people with more power than me can do whatever they want to me."
It's both, it's a nice illustration of how free is a free market. You could for example speculate on RAM trade or anything else, but the dude with billions of dollars can literally control entire trade.