▲ 34 ▼ ASUS, GIGABYTE and MSI reportedly plan motherboard price increases for Q3 2026 (videocardz.com) submitted 2 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Abyssian@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (6 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago (3 children) Ahhh good ol' market manipulation... The one true innovation of capitalism. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children) That's not true at all. Sure, you can argue that most inventions that were created under capitalism would have been created under most other economic ideologies, but definitely not all of them. We wouldn't have private equity groups without capitalism, and those are changing our lives every single day. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child) GOD I hate how right you are... Holy fuck I want to downvote for the snark (or my own inability to forgive ignorance) but... UGH! Private equity is second only to the stock market in, "how fucking braindead can humanity get?". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent [–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago We're getting less sales because only the stupid, rich, or desperate are building at the moment, lets jack up prices, that'll work… Morons (or conspirators in destroying the PC platform to make those datacentres profitable, or both). permalink fedilink source parent [–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago What the hell happened here permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago (3 children) Ahhh good ol' market manipulation... The one true innovation of capitalism. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children) That's not true at all. Sure, you can argue that most inventions that were created under capitalism would have been created under most other economic ideologies, but definitely not all of them. We wouldn't have private equity groups without capitalism, and those are changing our lives every single day. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child) GOD I hate how right you are... Holy fuck I want to downvote for the snark (or my own inability to forgive ignorance) but... UGH! Private equity is second only to the stock market in, "how fucking braindead can humanity get?". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children) That's not true at all. Sure, you can argue that most inventions that were created under capitalism would have been created under most other economic ideologies, but definitely not all of them. We wouldn't have private equity groups without capitalism, and those are changing our lives every single day. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child) GOD I hate how right you are... Holy fuck I want to downvote for the snark (or my own inability to forgive ignorance) but... UGH! Private equity is second only to the stock market in, "how fucking braindead can humanity get?". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child) GOD I hate how right you are... Holy fuck I want to downvote for the snark (or my own inability to forgive ignorance) but... UGH! Private equity is second only to the stock market in, "how fucking braindead can humanity get?". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago We're getting less sales because only the stupid, rich, or desperate are building at the moment, lets jack up prices, that'll work… Morons (or conspirators in destroying the PC platform to make those datacentres profitable, or both). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago What the hell happened here permalink fedilink source parent
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