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The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 197 points 7 months ago (5 children)

you know when the bubble pops and they no longer have AI companies buying RAM they will switch back to consumers and keep the high prices.

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  • [–] 140 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    if they're still around when the financial shell game they're playing finally comes to a stop. who am i kidding the government will bail them out.

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  • [–] 99 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Using your money.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    if the US government were actually funded by taxes, then everything the government does would be with "my money"

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Even if the government is funded by money printed by the central bank, it would still be funded with "your money". Every dollar printed dilutes your money by that same amount, ie it's like a much more subtle tax that doesn't follow any of the principles of proportionality, everyone pays the same (except those with little to no liquidity and everything invested, so it's really a tax on the poor through inflation)

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    That only works if we (the collective we) have more money. If a rich person has more $$ than a small country that means the effect we have is equivalent.

    That's why micron is doing what its doing. We are no longer the customer. They voted for us.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Keeping prices above what people are willing to buy for, while the majority of their business goes bust, is not a recipe to stay in business.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    But consumers are stupid. when they start selling ram again at a high price we should all boycot buying computers. instead a lot of people will just accept the new price. we saw it after the pandemic, people just accepting prices instead of holding fast and forcing prices down.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    You're saying this as a comment on an article about how drastically sales have already dropped due to the price increases... people are already doing that.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I am talking about when the price is no longer based supply. When we see their market bottom out on AI one would expect to see the price drop. But looking at recent history these massive companies keep the price high because consumers see it as the new normal.

    Consumers will find a way to eventually afford this price bump when its not food, shelter or medical care. It just takes a little longer when it is not a necessity.

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