▲ 421 ▼ RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders (arstechnica.com) submitted 10 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 141 comments fedilink hide all child comments I went to a pc building shop and the price of 64 RAM DDR5 was over $1000. I could have built an entire PC with that price a year ago.
[–] Velypso@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children) 1 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago Thats how bubbles pop. Those safeguards dont prevent an infinite money glitch, they stop the entire system from crumbling in a mild headwind. People always think this time is different during the growth phase of the bubble. permalink fedilink source parent [–] IronBird@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* nah, it's a casino. crash will come eventually, the complication is that both bulls and bears want the same thing in the end....higher those lines go up the more $ the people who know how much the underlying is actually worth can cash out. a crash/correction is just someone cashing out and either not putting the $ back in or atleast actually putting thought behind how they put it back in. the real suckers are the ones buying into everything automatically no matter the price. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago Thats how bubbles pop. Those safeguards dont prevent an infinite money glitch, they stop the entire system from crumbling in a mild headwind. People always think this time is different during the growth phase of the bubble. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* nah, it's a casino. crash will come eventually, the complication is that both bulls and bears want the same thing in the end....higher those lines go up the more $ the people who know how much the underlying is actually worth can cash out. a crash/correction is just someone cashing out and either not putting the $ back in or atleast actually putting thought behind how they put it back in. the real suckers are the ones buying into everything automatically no matter the price. permalink fedilink source parent