sanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoValve won’t subsidise its pricey Steam Machine as there’s no guarantee the open system will be used for Steamfrvr.comexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1215
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minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoI guess uh… how so is it artificial? Like, the inflation of the price is real. You do have to pay more now than a year or two ago.
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-21 month agoIt’s artificial because the components have been made scarce due to manufacturers choosing not to sell to consumers (or consumer products) any more, not because the components cost more to make or anything like that.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoThe cost of the component to be manufactured has almost never represented the price you pay for a good. The point is that the inflation isn’t artificial:that parts real It’s the demand that’s artificial, at least allegedly.
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 month agoSemantics. There is an artificial element in the process that results in them costing more than they did previously.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoSo because you’ve decided to use them wrong, words no longer have meaning. Got it.
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoIt’s really not difficult to understand what I mean. You’re being deliberately obtuse.
I guess uh… how so is it artificial? Like, the inflation of the price is real. You do have to pay more now than a year or two ago.
It’s artificial because the components have been made scarce due to manufacturers choosing not to sell to consumers (or consumer products) any more, not because the components cost more to make or anything like that.
The cost of the component to be manufactured has almost never represented the price you pay for a good.
The point is that the inflation isn’t artificial:that parts real It’s the demand that’s artificial, at least allegedly.
Semantics. There is an artificial element in the process that results in them costing more than they did previously.
So because you’ve decided to use them wrong, words no longer have meaning. Got it.
It’s really not difficult to understand what I mean. You’re being deliberately obtuse.