The recent problem of memory shortage is reaching insane levels, where consumer RAM is selling for multiple times the price compared to half a year ago. Instead of $200 people need to pay $600-800. All because of the AI bubble. To the point that this is literally going to limit freedom in the computer space and PC building and running things on premise, inching closer to how everything is pushed towards a subscription own nothing model.
I wanna start a conversation thread here on this, what is the view of people here on this particular problem because it does reveal a problem with the current system. Not sure free markets are doing a great work here. Nor is this the peak beauty of capitalism. What could be the solution, would a level of market intervention be necessary here?
Posted by terasia
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Price levels go up, opportunity arises for profit, competitors move in, price levels go down. Price gouge only exists at present due to inane regulation on ASML which creates a bottleneck as the government would rather keep China down than lift us up.