I put together a new desktop earlier in the year... it would literally cost me over $1000 more today between ram and storage. And I was upset about paying $200 over list for my GPU. With today's prices, I'd have stuck to my old computer.

What part of the AI experiment is the grift exactly?

The tools work as advertised and are currently priced way cheaper than they cost to create?

My local Microcenter has tons of RAM at inflated prices, with even more inflated “list prices” to make it appear like it is on sale. Checking just now - they’ve lowered prices on some of it since I last looked 2 weeks ago.

So either sales have collapsed or the shortage doesn’t exist (yet?)