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It may seem cute but economies only do this when they are very stressed.

by faefox 9mo ago

system2 9mo ago
It didn't stop people from buying the most expensive cards and CPUs when the world was ending in COVID-19 days. Average Joe doesn't know anything about CPUs. This is a gaming community that squeezes the most out of each buck. I wouldn't use CPU market for economic prediction.
- freehorse 9mo ago
  Average Joe does not know anything about CPUs, but when they are out to buy a new computer they can see the prices of a new DDR5 computer vs an older or used DDR4 one.
  - system2 9mo ago
    Do they even know what DDR5 or DDR4 are? Best Buy still sells 10-year-old laptops, and people buy them. CPU power means nothing to the average user. They do not know anything about RAM or CPU. Maybe here and there, a little disk space knowledge, just because they are familiar with the concept of disk space because of their phones.
- thetr0ll 9mo ago
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re-thc 9mo ago
> when they are very stressed DDR5 has gone up so much it just isn't worth it. 4-5x the price. Is this just "stress"?
- mrbungie 9mo ago
  It is stress in the consumer economy, everything is flocking and concentrating around AI related hardware due to better ROI.
  - re-thc 9mo ago
    > everything is flocking and concentrating around AI related hardware due to better ROI And they flocked to crypto and whatever else before. i.e. this "consumer" economy is always last. It's never going to have better ROI.
    - bigbadfeline 9mo ago
      > this "consumer" economy is always last. It's never going to have better ROI. Facts of life, as it is today. Won't change without active engagement but without change of direction, the end is hell itself.
  - bigbadfeline 9mo ago
    > It is stress in the consumer economy The consumer economy is the reason for existence of everything else related to economics. Corps stressing the consumer economy is like the tail wagging and starving the dog. Amirite? > everything is flocking and concentrating around AI related hardware due to better ROI The "better ROI" is the results of crooked financial schemes that steal from the consumer economy and redistribute to corporate fancies. The circular debt schemes being employed here are going to be bailed out by the consumers by inflation and starvation, outright bailouts of the CDS market are quite likely as well.

It may seem cute but economies only do this when they are very stressed.

by faefox 9mo ago

It may seem cute but economies only do this when they are very stressed.

It didn't stop people from buying the most expensive cards and CPUs when the world was ending in COVID-19 days. Average Joe doesn't know anything about CPUs. This is a gaming community that squeezes the most out of each buck. I wouldn't use CPU market for economic prediction.

freehorse 9mo ago
Average Joe does not know anything about CPUs, but when they are out to buy a new computer they can see the prices of a new DDR5 computer vs an older or used DDR4 one.
- system2 9mo ago
  Do they even know what DDR5 or DDR4 are? Best Buy still sells 10-year-old laptops, and people buy them. CPU power means nothing to the average user. They do not know anything about RAM or CPU. Maybe here and there, a little disk space knowledge, just because they are familiar with the concept of disk space because of their phones.
thetr0ll 9mo ago
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re-thc 9mo ago

> when they are very stressed DDR5 has gone up so much it just isn't worth it. 4-5x the price. Is this just "stress"?

mrbungie 9mo ago
It is stress in the consumer economy, everything is flocking and concentrating around AI related hardware due to better ROI.
- re-thc 9mo ago
  > everything is flocking and concentrating around AI related hardware due to better ROI And they flocked to crypto and whatever else before. i.e. this "consumer" economy is always last. It's never going to have better ROI.
  - bigbadfeline 9mo ago
    > this "consumer" economy is always last. It's never going to have better ROI. Facts of life, as it is today. Won't change without active engagement but without change of direction, the end is hell itself.
- bigbadfeline 9mo ago
  > It is stress in the consumer economy The consumer economy is the reason for existence of everything else related to economics. Corps stressing the consumer economy is like the tail wagging and starving the dog. Amirite? > everything is flocking and concentrating around AI related hardware due to better ROI The "better ROI" is the results of crooked financial schemes that steal from the consumer economy and redistribute to corporate fancies. The circular debt schemes being employed here are going to be bailed out by the consumers by inflation and starvation, outright bailouts of the CDS market are quite likely as well.