It isn't 'seeing the future', it is exercising your power in the present to control what futures are possible.
Like, for instance, forcing your customers to buy more chips than they can install, lest they be cut off entirely. Or increasing hypothetical demand artificially by breaking international smuggling laws using your girlfriend's shell company.
It is not 'naiive' (or naïve, even) to remember previous instances of crimes committed by exactly these companies using exactly the same tactics.
Unregulated markets create these predatory incentives, it shouldn't shock your or anyone that this has come to pass again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_industry_price_fixing has been linked elsewhere, but I'll link it again.
It isn't 'seeing the future', it is exercising your power in the present to control what futures are possible.
Like, for instance, forcing your customers to buy more chips than they can install, lest they be cut off entirely. Or increasing hypothetical demand artificially by breaking international smuggling laws using your girlfriend's shell company.
It is not 'naiive' (or naïve, even) to remember previous instances of crimes committed by exactly these companies using exactly the same tactics.
Unregulated markets create these predatory incentives, it shouldn't shock your or anyone that this has come to pass again.