The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.
Most people can’t just “not pay taxes this year” because filing your taxes isn’t paying them. You’ve already paid them. You’re filing to receive your return.
Because they already took too much to begin with.
The end of physical media is depressing. You don’t actually own digital media streaming companies can literally delete it and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Isn’t it wild we have a system where a doctor can go “this person needs such and such procedure done” and then some insurance middleman can go “nahhh they don’t bc we don’t want to pay for it”?