RND/ To consider paying over five thousand dollars for an Nvidia RTX 3080 on Ebay (FTG!):
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In which you electronically meditate on the underlying symbolic meanings of this global GPU ‘shortage’ and consider the inherent unresolved Capitalist ironies in casually talking /moaning about ‘scalpers’ in an age of artificial scarcity – especially when one of the largest tech companies on the planet couldn’t care less about self described ‘gamers’ (aka Big Business As Usual.)
Slate’s notion that struggling to buy a video card during a pandemic is somehow remotely ‘Soul-Killing’ seems darkly laughable:
Some tasty pseudo-financial analysis from PC Gamer (conveniently forgetting their own dubious, unexamined first principles regarding Capitalism): All the ways the world is trying to deal with the graphics card shortage and why they won’t work
Idea for a game: #GPUSCALPERBOTWAR. – In which scalper bots on the Blockchain fight it out for the latest and greatest GPU’s to run their own programs on (sounds a lot like an absurdist Scheme For Full Employment.) See also PCMAG: How Do Bots Buy Up Graphics Cards? We Rented One to Find Out
More violently sensible / hyper-rational (fiscal) based advice at Seeking Alpha: Don’t Sell Nvidia Because Of Chip Shortage
Finally, Linus Tech Tips: Nvidia Sold GPUs Directly to Crypto Miners!?
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