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Yes, let's marvel at all the famous communist electronic entertainment products coming out of Russia and China in the 70's and 80's...
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Anyone just given up on looking for a new GPU?
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Yes, let's marvel at all the famous communist electronic entertainment products coming out of Russia and China in the 70's and 80's...
That government arrangement ended up being a kick in the teeth for many who took up the offer.
The irony is that right now many things we used to make fun of in communism are starting to apply to us:
- People with university degrees serving tables and flipping burgers? Check
- Shortages? Partial check
- Queues for certain goods? Personal check, every thursday for GPUs...
Soviet* communism surely.
While the USSR spend hugely on state education and medical care (at least post-Stalin), China seems to leave everything to the market.
* and by extension Eastern European countries under their influence.
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the only thing USSR spent on, big style, was the military
Aside from Tetris being created by a Soviet software engineer, I guess they were just too busy inventing the world's first implantable artificial heart, the world's first space station and the world's first mobile telephone device
I rather not mine for that amount - Not worth the wear on the hardware!
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Mining for £3.70 a day is obviously a lot for those on Universal Credit, helps to make up for what the government have recently taken from them 
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Mining for £3.70 a day is obviously a lot for those on Universal Credit, helps to make up for what the government have recently taken from them
Everything I held from mining in 2017 is worth £8K per month now. I guess I should stop mining because it's only worth £3.70 right now like all the noobs told me to back in 2017.
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Aside from Tetris being created by a Soviet software engineer, I guess they were just too busy inventing the world's first implantable artificial heart, the world's first space station and the world's first mobile telephone device
Meanwhile, the list of things democratic countries invented is thousands of times longer... And includes the GPU, which was kind of the point.
A quick Google also suggests Motorola created the first mobile phone in 1973.
Technically Hitler's Germany invented the nuclear bomb and reactor, not that it did them much good...
I mean they created one video game... And what was that actually released on? IBM PC, because the Russian computer it was developed on had no graphics output.
Your examples only go to show how humans are capable of doing the research, but under a communist system that research is abandoned if its leaders deem it not worthy of production. Even space tech is now being driven by private companies.
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Really?
Then how did we advance from the Stone age>Bronze age>Iron age?
How did irrigation and farming come about? How were the first cities built? How did writing and alphabets develop? How did we learn to build ships?
How about Science, Maths, Astonomy, Medicine, Philosophy, Art?
I don't think you know anything about free-market capitalism apart from: Buy things good. No buy things bad.
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Actually almost everything you've listed advanced because there was money to be made from it.
Gold underpinned society from at least 10,000 years ago, at the very least, probably a lot longer.
The earliest writing we have is only about 5000 years old, so gold coins existed for at least double the length of time that writing has.
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If money exists, there's money to be made, that doesn't mean Capitalism was the reason irrigation for example was invented...
These developments were made without Capitalism, and they weren't driven by Capitalism either, money changed hands after their development just as it had before...
Currency isn't Capitalism, a basic barter system may well have existed before the earliest currencies anyway, but that's not Capitalism either.
Money was made as a result of progress, thousands of years before Capitalism, but irrigation, farming came from neccesity and human inegnuity, cave paintings, any form of culture in fact came about because we're human, and none of it had anything to do with making money or Capitalism.
We didn't develop through the ages listed because there was money to be made from it either.
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Cave paintings led to the invent of the GPU?
I think you need to have a serious rethink.
I think you need to have a serious rethink.
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So has anyone given up on looking then? 
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I’m keeping an eye out for a 3080 FE still though whether they will ever reappear I don’t know.
I hope to be perfectly happy with my GeForce Now RTX 3080 subscription when it is released in a few weeks.
I hope to be perfectly happy with my GeForce Now RTX 3080 subscription when it is released in a few weeks.
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Wow, I'm surprised you folded quite so quickly.
Capitalism and State versions of Capitalism like Russia, Cuba, China etc are a recent stage in human history. Any inventions/developments like GPUs are 'born' on the shoulders of what was developed before Capitalism, free market or State run Capitalism, as humans moved from pre history to slavery, feudalism and now Capitalist commodity production.
