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Call it what you will I'm finding the price of gas and RAM and food in general rather gouging indeed. The supply didn't exactly evaporate. The supply simply got re-directed. These "artificial" shortages are a thing. With RAM we all know who bought it up. We had our preliminary experience when the Bit coin mining craze exploded and graphics cards started to triple in price. Interestingly enough graphics cards are still pretty expensive and the affordable ones are a joke. But I think there is more to this RAM deal than the media is telling us. Methinks the ultimate goal is to get the user dependence on RAM shifted to the server farms. . . The people who have been buying up all the RAM. And no, I'm personally NOT a big fan of AI -- at least not AGI and large language models seeing where they are going and the impact they have on society. But I'm old and it won't matter much to me personally when there are hardly any jobs left for artists, developers, and software engineers because AI is gonna do it all.
The "conspiracy theory" label is so lame. You cannot have a consortium if none of its members CONSPIRE. They have to. That's the whole purpose of a consortium. TCG is indeed a consortium. That's putting it politely. In fact, I agree with Cheaterslick. It would more accurately be called a cartel. Nothing can be done about it as it is an old game: Inflation and deflation. We, the plebs, must roll with the punches and pay the piper or do without. Myself, I have enough hardware in my basement to keep me busy for the rest of my life but I'm a dinosaur. I don't need the new stuff. In fact, if things keep on going the way they have been the price of RAM will be among the last things people will be worried about.
