this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2026
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There is no RAM shortage. There is only greed.
We haven't run out of the ingredients. The machines that make it have not all been raptured.
This is nothing more than greedy assholes demeaning more money for something they can control.
There is no shortage, don't call it that or you are feeding their narrative.
Why would anyone bother making consumer RAM for cheap when they can use that manufacturing capacity to make it for the AI datacenters instead, who pay a premium?
When the king orders 1000 cakes, the baker isn't going to be making bread for the peasants.
People used to sometimes start businesses in order to bring a high demand product to market at a much more affordable price. Often, because that person actually gave a shit about the things they made/sold.
Sometimes these people would even go on to make more money then if they had just went along with the market rather than undercut it.
But all of that requires long term thinking. And some actual character and principle in the people who do it. Which is apparently all just way too much to ask in 2026.
This is where Id put my fab
IF I HAD ONE!!!