A class action lawsuit filed in California accuses Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron—which together control roughly 89% of global DRAM production—of deliberately restricting older memory standard supply (DDR3, DDR4) and shifting focus to newer HBM to artificially inflate chip prices. The suit is confirmed by multiple tech and finance outlets and targets the core allegation that the three companies coordinated production cuts during a memory shortage that has driven prices to historical highs. The framing of this post as evidence of capitalism being a "scam" oversimplifies what the lawsuit actually alleges—price-fixing through market manipulation by specific competitors, not an inherent property of capitalism itself—and ignores that antitrust litigation is the system's built-in remedy for this type of conduct.