The prices will never go back to normal because that’s not how pricing works. Once its proven that consumers will pay the price, they will modulate supply to keep the price where it is. Why do more for less when they can do less for more.
We’re fucked. It’s not going to get better. Act accordingly.
that’s not the point. you are talking in extremes. the point is prices won’t reach the relatively low price we were used to. that happens because there is not enough competition for that.
If that were the case then why are we currently talking about these insane price hikes when RAM was more expensive than it is now 20 years ago? That could only have happened if prices went down.
The prices will never go back to normal because that’s not how pricing works. Once its proven that consumers will pay the price, they will modulate supply to keep the price where it is. Why do more for less when they can do less for more.
We’re fucked. It’s not going to get better. Act accordingly.
Yeah guys, this is true for sure and we should all panic buy now. Because prices for computer hardware never come down over time.
Exactly, I’m just not buying any more computers for now and that’s it. If I have to I’ll order from taobao while they have supply
that’s not the point. you are talking in extremes. the point is prices won’t reach the relatively low price we were used to. that happens because there is not enough competition for that.
If that were the case then why are we currently talking about these insane price hikes when RAM was more expensive than it is now 20 years ago? That could only have happened if prices went down.
Well, it’s not like it would be the first time something like that happened.
Everything old is new again
we can just blow up these factories and the CEOs if they are so greedy they wouldn’t be of any use anyway.