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Why bother selling to regular consumers at all then? One or two big companies can have everything, and the rest of us can have nothing. And we will like it.

I love how I've seen a bunch of responses that amount to "do you really need that much RAM anyway?" Unreal.

Sorry, we have to starve so the two dairy distributors can have another good quarter. I hear gruel is cheap, for now.

Who knew that an ideologically-oriented organization would have morals and values, and that they wouldn't be aligned with Leon? Maybe they should've just sold out to AI, then they'd get a ticker tape parade.

From what I saw, their page has a lot of writing and no data on successes. I think that sums it up. They sold out to Pride instead of Greed.

I'm not sure why this affects you so much.

I guess I got nerd sniped. I don't really enjoy replying to all the comments, but it is what I'm advocating for so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe it's time to not let a single company buy all the RAM.

It's unfortunate that we will soon not have computers because it is not profitable enough. Alas. Too bad the market is so efficient.

I'd much rather be in a country where the odd temporary shortage happens due to a massive new market appearing than one where supply/demand is always fixed and static because nothing new gets built without extreme careful planning.

AI is not going away, but there will be a correction and things will plateau to a new higher level of demand for chips and go back to normal as always. There's too much money involved for this not to scale up.

Markets can't adapt overnight to tons of data centers being built all of a sudden but it will adapt.


>AI is not going away, but there will be a correction and things will plateau to a new higher level of demand for chips and go back to normal as always. There's too much money involved for this not to scale up.

What will they do when people continue to not pay for this crap and investors demand their pound of flesh? Because uh, nobody's paying for this, and when people are gambling with trillions of dollars...

>Markets can't adapt overnight to tons of data centers being built all of a sudden but it will adapt.

Which data centers?


> Because uh, nobody's paying for this, and when people are gambling with trillions of dollars...

I pay for 3 different AI products and every person on my team is paying for at least one. Just because some enterprise sales teams rushed to oversell some half-baked AI products they duct taped together doesn't mean there isn't a huge market.

> Which data centers?

Microsoft https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/18/inside-the-world... Anthropic https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/data-center-construction... Twitter https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/elon-musks-twitte... CoreSite https://www.coresite.com/news/coresite-launches-ny3-data-cen...

Meta, Google, and Oracle are scaling theirs up too


Personally, I don't care. Pay me and leave me the hell alone. We get 80 short years on this beautiful blue marble, if we're exceedingly lucky, and I refuse to spend one red second of that playing stupid games to excel in a sclerotic economic system that didn't even exist until very recently.

So I'm going to continue to try to grind it out as best as I can, while spending time on the things that actually matter: music, art, making delicious food for me and my friends, my hobbies, my family, my local community. Corporate America is bereft of joy and meaning anyway. Maybe it makes me some sort of sucker, but I don't care. I'd rather live.


A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

Seems to me you have your Life Razor, per Sahil Bloom, pretty much in place for your current stage in life

You mean if everyone works really hard, we can't all be CEOs? :(

Anyone can be a CEO, just start a company.

So we don't need anyone to teach or clean toilets? We can all work our way up and be fabulously rich?

I'm not sure how you got that from my comment. CEO is a job title that is easy to get, that was my only point.

If everyone wanted that, sure. But many people don't (I sure don't), and many people that do will fail. Because "working hard" is relative.

And that's ignoring the inherent inequality of birthright.


Sorry, but this feels like a very American take. There are places in the world that still have high social cohesion and high trust. Not everyone is out to get you everywhere all the time, just in societies which encourage that sort of relating to others.

there are high trust societies where you still cannot take people at their word because it might not be a culture of being direct to others. thinking of japan which is high social cohesion and trust, but still difficult to navigate business contexts due to how problems would be communicated.

Which one would you recommend? because AFAIK most of them are consuming the American products that are constantly scamming you... I've experienced this as a resident of the EU as well.

thank you, venturecruelty, for your take on who might be out to get me. do you think choosing a username says nothing about what comes to your mind?

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