> Quebec Maple Syrup Producers organization

Can you just not join the organization?

Maple trees are living things and have a right to reproduce, you can't fault a bird for shitting maple seeds all over my farm planting maple trees everywhere.

You're correct in theory. I'm just not sure we have a cartel situation. Micron is a US company, and it controls 25% of the global market. I see no evidence that they nor SK hynix nor Samsung are intentionally limiting production.

I do see people arguing, "they had years to increase production - why didn't they?" They've been remarkably candid about this: because RAM production has been losing them money in the past. Because they don't have a cartel, prices were on the floor. Investing in more production would have been corporate suicide.

Even now, there is considerable risk that the bubble will burst, and all this investment in new production will be flushed down the toilet. RAM production is a brutal business.

> OPEC is a perfect example of this behaviour.

It really is. First thing I searched for in the thread.

OPEC's aim isn't to keep prices as high as possible. If they go too high, people will start buying electric cars, investing in renewable energy, etc. Basically they want to make oil as expensive as possible while preventing it from getting so expensive that it's disruptive.

Can you list out the precise "cartel" company, their supply chains and the board of directors, their financial and political ties?

Lot of unsubstantiated claims with low fidelity meme evidence

> Cartels aren't known for massively increasing production to satisfy all demand.

Don't worry they will leave money on the table and lobby for protectionism when china comes and eats their lunch.

But are the memory chip producers acting like a cartel? In the past they have not. When there was a shortage, they increased production as rapidly as they could build the new fabs, crashing the price of memory.