One can point out flaws in overreaching economic systems and still believe in its basic tenants.

Anyways, if the choice is between first-world problems like these and the problems we saw in communism for the last 100 years not a hard choice mate.

No, it shouldn't be illegal or regulated. Graphics cards aren't necessities like water. Let the vendors and manufacturers figure out the scalping problem.

Vendors and manufacturers don't have an incentive to figure it out. Mainly seeing store fronts try to solve it with pickup in person strategies, which mainly helps their company brand align with hoomams over e-commerce bots. If scalped inventory slows adoption, then that might move some tech giants with digital sales loss to action, probably not though.

This post was edited by RedFromWinter on May 7 2021 11:46am

basically, if you're scalping water or insulin, eat the fucking book. scalping Yeezys, that's on yeezy buyers.

I think companies like NVIDIA or AMD do have an image preservation issue though. I agree that someone like TSM who makes these for them don't have much of an issue but it's not good business practice for those first mentioned companies to ignore consumer concerns. A response like 'oh well that's tough not our problem' is bad PR.

That's probably why NVIDIA is doing things to prevent their video cards from being used for crypto.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on May 7 2021 12:20pm

You're right about that!

God he's so close

It just means nvidia failed to recognise supply and demand. Scalpers basically correcting the market.
In saying that "essential" products I would have a problem with especially in tough times. Monopolies are toxic to overall health of our species which can dictate prices on basic goods and services. This is what we need to be aware of.

guy ik from work dropped 700 on a ps5, most cringe thing ive ever heard in my life

ps he deserves it and so do you

This post was edited by Jupe on May 7 2021 12:45pm