Free healthcare, relatively low food prices, growing wages, one of the highest minimum wages on Earth, low income taxes, decent workers rights, low levels of violent crime.
There's some not great things, like house prices, but as I understand it, that's an issue in most of the developed world.
Asus won't be producing shit. They'll be slapping their name on some kits already being produced by another company.
What Gskill, Kingston, Corsair, Mushkin, Crucial, etc. do already. If any one of these appears or disappears, it makes zero difference to supply. The original manufacturers switching to HBM because Nvidia/OpenAI wanted them to (not to mention OpenAI doing a deal with Samsung and SK Hynix for 40% of earth's entire supply) is the cause of this, and it won't be solved by some Asus stickers being slapped on some RAM sticks that otherwise would've still been sold, just with a different sticker on the front.
This article thinking that ASUS will plan, build, and operate a state of the art DRAM fab in a short timescale is absolute fantasy.
AM4 is the greatest CPU socket that has ever been created.
The fact some shitty athlons were sold on it, but also something like a 5800X3D that has held up so well that some people are still willing to pay this much years later is astonishing to me.
Question is, though, who now isn't on your blacklist?
Samsung and SK Hynix never sold to consumers directly, yet seem to be avoiding flak. Micron is now joining them in that.
Who do you get that isn't that three? Almost all RAM on the market is Samsung, SK Hynix, or Micron.
On top of that, Samsung and SK Hynix were the ones that signed the OpenAI deal (OpenAI bought 40% of the world's DRAM supply and kicked off panic buying), so tbh Micron is the least responsible for the current DRAM market issues.
I'd say your definition is an odd one, then.
OP's hardware is extremely low end.