sanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoValve won’t subsidise its pricey Steam Machine as there’s no guarantee the open system will be used for Steamfrvr.comexternal-linkmessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1172
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minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-210 hours 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-up3·10 hours 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-up3·edit-210 hours agoSemantics. There is an artificial element in the process that results in them costing more than they did previously.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 hours agoSo because you’ve decided to use them wrong, words no longer have meaning. Got it.
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 hours agoIt’s really not difficult to understand what I mean. You’re being deliberately obtuse.
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.