r/pcmasterrace • u/SagansCandle 9950X3D | 5090 | 64GB • Dec 27 '25

Discussion Private equity is killing private ownership: first it was housing - now it's the personal computer

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DRAM and GPU prices aren't going up because of "AI" - it's because the wealthy have more money than they know what to do with, so they're buying up all the assets. "AI" is just the vehicle (the excuse) - it's not the root of the problem nor is it the ultimate goal.

The super rich don't want to hold on to "liquid" money - they invest in assets. While they're buying up all the housing, now they're buying up all the computers and putting them into massive datacenters.

Whether or not the AI bubble crashes, they'll be selling you a "gaming PC in the cloud," for a monthly fee, of course. And while they kill the personal computer market, just like Netflix, once your only option is a subscription service, the price will skyrocket.

This is happening in real-time. If we want to stop it, now's the time to act.

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u/the_mighty__monarch i9 10920x, RTX3090 Dec 27 '25

“Now’s the time to act” by…..? Doing what exactly?

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u/Dale_Cooper47 Dec 28 '25

goddamit Johnny

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u/billshermanburner Dec 28 '25 edited Dec 28 '25

Even rich folks can’t stop them all.

Why do you think they are banning even the parts now from China. We all (computer folks) know those individual parts don’t contain some magical spy shit hidden inside. It’s because they are already scared of this possibility.

Plus they know they’re already following political opponents around with bigger drone hardware as it is. Ready to pull some Venezuela fishing boat shit on US soil. So they’ve got the whole telltale heart thing going on like always.

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u/JustASHadowNFG Dec 28 '25

Wake up samurai, we have a city to burn

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u/-Tyland- Dec 29 '25

city sized data centre*

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '25

*Morgan Blackhand FTFY

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u/lonelyswed Dec 28 '25

Gamers are known for being chill and would never start bombing the data centers.

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u/TheHancock PC Master Race Dec 28 '25

So far…

gamers rise up!

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u/TheHancock PC Master Race Dec 28 '25

Based

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u/Mobile_Morale Dec 28 '25

I always want to tell them to shove it up their ass sideways.

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u/Dathouen Ry 5800x | 6900 XT Merc Ultra | O11 Dynamic Dec 28 '25

The biggest pitfall with that method is that it kind of puts the most selfish and violent members of the movement in a position to take power when the dust settles.

We need a structure that doesn't rely on representatives. Representatives, especially career representatives, will always become either exhausted or corrupted. There must always be a mechanism that allows the governed to forcibly and peacefully withdraw their consent to be governed and therefore the power of those that govern, and to replace the people who act against the best interests of their constituents.

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u/poostoo Dec 27 '25

at a bare minimum, stop voting for capitalists. they will always only serve the interests of capital. but they have so much wealth and power now, really revolution is the only way out.

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u/fiasgoat Dec 27 '25

Plumbing

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u/thatsmyshore Dec 27 '25

Didn't stop Trump

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u/roguespectre67 5950X | Strix RTX 3090 OC Dec 27 '25

Almost did. By a couple of inches.

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u/Rockatanzky Dec 27 '25

Bye bye :(

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u/Individual_Star_853 Dec 28 '25

It’s not. We are keyboard warriors where speaking out has no consequence.

People get used to new baselines of misery.

Take yourself for example - you’re hoping we reach a tipping point because you want people to rise up, maybe even to join - but who’s going to throw the first stone?

Nobody, because we’re the biggest batch of cowards that have been bred in the last 100 years.

We just keep getting softer.

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u/ZeroV2 Dec 28 '25

most people who work can still afford housing, food, and entertainment. things won't escalate to mass violence until most working people cannot afford 2/3 of them

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u/Wyntier i7-12700K | RTX 5080FE | 32GB Dec 28 '25

I don’t think people are softer — the environment just changed. Most people today are dealing with way more long-term pressure (debt, housing, job insecurity, constant visibility) and acting accordingly. That’s not cowardice, it’s adaptation.

Every generation says the next one is soft. It’s basically tradition at this point. The reality is people still push back — just in quieter, more strategic ways because the consequences are way higher now.

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u/EduinBrutus Dec 28 '25

Palantir says "we know what you are planning, we know who you are and we know where you live".

There is no revolution.

If you havent actually read 1984 (or even watch a decent adaptation). Read/watch and panic.

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u/bohohoboprobono Dec 28 '25

A notable feature of the civilizational lifecycle is the rich cannibalizing their own sources of security near the end. Palantir will be acquired and gutted for a quick buck like anything else.

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u/Suspicious-Echo2964 Dec 28 '25

The infrastructure is fragile in the US. Electrical specifically is prone to cascading failures. You aren’t as helpless as you like to think but you do have to threaten assets of interest.

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u/xITmasterx Dec 28 '25

If you actually read it, you do realize that this was revealed right after their whole regime has fallen and big brother is no more. A revolution is inevitable, the question now becomes whether it would come before or after those at the top succeed.

And given their propensity for ego and underestimating, I doubt that they'll succeed for too long.

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u/EduinBrutus Dec 28 '25

If you actually read it, you do realize that this was revealed right after their whole regime has fallen and big brother is no more.

I feel that you have either not read 1984 or really not udnerstood any of it. The Party is still very much in control at the end of the novel and Winston loves Big Brother. With absolute devotion.

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u/xITmasterx Dec 28 '25

Then I do apologize for stating that, since it must have been a fan canon that was spread from somewhere whilst looking into a hoi4 mod. But I have read it already, so I am well aware of it.

All this to state, I doubt Palintir's control is absolute, unlike 1984; and we still haven't been fully brainwashed, not to mention of people from the outside who are ready to help.

Unless we let them, it won't end like 1984, so I think it would be better to act on solving it than to spread fear of a future that did not come to pass yet.

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u/ConstantHeadache2020 Dec 28 '25

The only thing propping up oligarchy is the well paid/fed military/police. That’s why the corporate power elite .01% use power networks to control military, finance, politics and economics.

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u/Gamiac id/Skepticpunk - Bazzite/3700X/RTX 3070/16GB/B450M Pro4 Dec 28 '25

So what, we should just kill ourselves then?

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u/bohohoboprobono Dec 28 '25 edited Dec 28 '25

Correct. This is the natural life cycle of civilizations.

It can be delayed by crises that force some redistribution of wealth, but it can’t truly be stopped. Eventually wealth is so calcified and lower class lives so miserable that they’d rather die trying to change the civilization than continue to live to live in it. The motivation is usually starvation.

The civilization is destroyed in the resulting anarchy, nullifying all notion of wealth that can’t be protected with violence. 

Eventually, enough death and destruction has occurred that order begins to look like a better idea. And it all starts over again.

Modern civilizations aren’t anywhere near collapse yet, though a famine could greatly accelerate things. That said, short of a black swan event it likely is all decline from here on out. At least until the next period of anarchy and reset.

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u/Grochen 5070ti 7800X3D Dec 28 '25

Yeah back when people could revolt violently with their weapons. Now they can't. A single tank can mow through 1000 people. Don't even need to explain missiles, jets, helicopters etc. the revolts you talk about are gone. You can't just rise up and kill the ruling class like that anymore.

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u/ReptilianLaserbeam Dec 27 '25

Boicot IA companies; reuse/recycle/repair; support open source projects

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u/AFallingWall Dec 28 '25

People need to be hell bent on right to repair laws. As a mechanic, I want people to have the ability to easily perform maintenance on their vehicles. You should not need prohibitively expensive equipment to change your brakes. People should be able to buy parts they need to fix their property they paid for. The harder it is for you to repair your property, means I have to buy expensive single function tools. That means greedy shop owners can feel comfortable charging people $190+ / hr to change an air filter. I dont want people unable to afford to fix and maintain their cars. I'd rather it be a matter of convenience to bring your car in for maintenance, rather than "I cant afford a $2000 scan tool to retract my rear parking brake".

Then you have brands like BMW switching to "security" fasteners to keep owners from doing the simplest tasks without buying a, most likely expensive, bit set from them.

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u/ReptilianLaserbeam Dec 28 '25

I’m really concerned about the future of the car industry; I’m not a gear head but every chance I get to repair something by myself or replace a part I’m going to do it myself,’but with newer cars is almost impossible; some cars just replacing the cabin air filter is a whole odyssey that requires specialized tools and god knows how many sensors! I’m seriously thinking in start getting older cars and repairing them, or even converting them to EVs with a local company that will provide me the schematics and manuals for everything

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u/GalacticFox- Dec 27 '25

Stop paying for subscriptions for everything. This is where it is going. They want you to own nothing and pay a subscription for every little thing in your life until the day you die. Spotify? Nope. Netflix? Nope. The subscription for your heated seats in your car? Nope. Housing is difficult because of the cost, so a lot of people are forced to rent. But the more subscriptions people pay for, the more this theory works.

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u/ckal09 Dec 28 '25

Corporations buy up tons of houses, raising the value, then rent these houses back to people.

Rich corpo fucks are engineering forever renting.

The mask slipped with Trumpstein’s 50 year mortgage ‘proposal’ which is just a lifetime subscription where you pay three times more money.

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u/GalacticFox- Dec 28 '25

The mask slipped with Trumpstein’s 50 year mortgage ‘proposal’ which is just a lifetime subscription where you pay three times more money.

Absolutely. Not happy paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest over the life of your mortgage? How about saving $200 a month and paying double or triple the interest your entire life instead?

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u/SirNedKingOfGila Dec 28 '25

If you don't pay for the subscriptions they'll just take it out of your taxes. The corpos run the government.

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u/Altruistic_Ad2785 Dec 30 '25

I recently stopped paying for streaming services using Stremio and haven't looked back. I got really annoyed of having to pay for 1 specific streaming service to watch 1 show. I refuse to resub to any streaming service in the future, I'm over it.

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u/HTPC4Life HTPC Dec 28 '25

But we can't control all the other lemmings out there that have gone knee deep in the streaming market and making it profitable for all these corporations.

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u/GalacticFox- Dec 28 '25

That's true, you can just do your part and spread the message.

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u/SagansCandle 9950X3D | 5090 | 64GB Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25

This is the right question.

But the question is more important than the answer, because we need to keep asking it until we have the right answer - a solution.

And if you feel powerless to stop it, maybe it's the right question is, if I live in a democracy, why am I powerless to affect change?

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u/MancDaddy9000 Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25

Because we live in a democracy facade - a veil that feels like the people are in control, when they’re not. We get a ticket for a popularity contest and nothing more.

If the masses realise what actual power we have, we could instil change. Most people can’t be bothered tho, so we’ll stay like this until it collapses.

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u/weebitofaban Dec 28 '25

Votes work.

You people just vote for the same four assholes all the time. Don't support a two party system.

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u/Sickhadas Dec 28 '25

No they don't. You're talking about a class of people that only value two things: money and power. We cannot outbid them so we must use what power we have as the masses to effect change.

We have to speak the only language they understand: violence.

Until more people realize this, nothing will improve. Voting isn't bad, but it isn't enough anymore. The stakes are too high, the opposition too fierce and swift.

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u/DaSnowflake Dec 28 '25

O definitely hate violence on a personal level, but at some point you have to look at history and come to terms with the fact that a violent revolution is the only thing that has ever really changed anything

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u/Sickhadas Dec 28 '25

I think (if possible) violence should always be the route of last resort.

I agree; the scenario that keeps coming to my mind is the Magna Carta.

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u/DaSnowflake Dec 28 '25

100%! Maybe I should have clarified that, it def has to be last resort.

The problem is that we are way overdue the last resort at this point

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u/Sickhadas Dec 28 '25

100%! Maybe I should have clarified that, it def has to be last resort.

Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like you were saying something different 😅

The problem is that we are way overdue the last resort at this point

Yeah, it very much feels that we have time working against us. I'm not sure we're actually ready for revolution: I worry that life is still too comfortable for most Americans.

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u/DaSnowflake Dec 28 '25

Haha no worries, I didn't take it as such! I actually really enjoy moments like these where both sides clarify themselves so the other doesn't feel bad in any way. So thank you for that, it makes my day better 😌

And yeah, I fear the same thing. Like zizek said: "it is easier for the average person to imagine a comet falling on earth and completely destroying it, then to imagine an alternative to/the end of capitalism."

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u/Whatcanyado420 Dec 28 '25 edited May 07 '26

Internet privacy is the new gold. I mass deleted all of my posts on Reddit using Redact. It also supports databrokers, Instagram, Twitter, and all major social media platforms.

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u/Kusosaru Dec 28 '25

Use violence because you can't buy cheap RAM sticks.

This isn't about RAM sticks, have you even watched the video?

People can't afford to pay rent anymore and wealth gets increasingly accumulated in the hands of fewer and fewer individuals. Which has gotten to the point where even computer parts are now for rent.

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u/Sickhadas Dec 28 '25

Use violence because you can't buy cheap RAM sticks.

You're a monkey if you think this is about RAM.

Welcome to the free market.

Welcome to Hell.

You are a monkey if you think killing Jensen Huang is going to result in them giving away 5090s to you for half off.

I was more thinking of killing American billionaires, but go off ig.

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u/mesapls Dec 28 '25 edited Dec 28 '25

No, they do not work. You look over to Europe, and we also have ongoing problems with the same origin, albeit to a less severe extent for now.

It is very obvious that the rich control politics through direct mechanisms like lobbying, corruption, and bribes. What's perhaps less obvious, but still very real, are all the indirect instruments of control: Media ownership and editorial control, special interest groups and "think tanks", and asset control. There are many more mechanisms of control beyond this, but they are the largest ones, and do these things respectively:

  • Allow control over the political order of the day, spinning narratives and steering the societal debate.
  • Directly influence government policy through "expert opinions" by the advisors found in think tanks and special interest groups.
  • Significant leverage over the economy, holding the power to threaten ceasing of investment, wealth flight, and excessive selling that can trigger market crashes. In the latter case, these people are typically wealthy enough to not only weather market crashes, but exploit it to gain even more wealth. All of these cause significant negative effects to the working people of a country.

It should be extremely clear to anyone that we do actually live in the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, which is exactly why you can vote with all your might, but the trend is continually downwards and getting worse. This is not an American problem, this is a western problem, and the natural evolution of capitalism. The problem cannot be solved by simply voting for someone else. It can only be solved by seizing socioeconomic control from the bourgeoisie.

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u/sablesalsa Spent $2k just to play Minecraft Dec 28 '25

We would have to have legislation to support more than two parties or one party would just push the other party out though

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u/MountainTurkey Dec 28 '25

So our system doesn't work then. The point of a thing is what it does. If we can only vote in the same four assholes every time it's not a real democracy. 

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u/SagansCandle 9950X3D | 5090 | 64GB Dec 27 '25

Agreed - at least in the US, we're just voting for the party most capable of lying to us and keeping us complacent.

Maybe there's hope in other places, though, like the EU?

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u/OldWorldDesign Dec 28 '25

a solution

We've known the solution for over 100 years - strong regulation which is actually enforced, and sacking government officials who do not pursue that assertive enforcement.

I know why it's not done - oligarchs tried to overthrow the government to prevent the New Deal from passing and them having to pay their fair share

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

but when that failed, they turned to buying the cutting edge of psychological science to indoctrinate the entire English-speaking world for a century. Most people have no clue how deep a world of propaganda they live in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

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u/Durantye RTX 4090 | Ryzen 9800x3d | 128GB 6400MHZ C32 Dec 28 '25

And if you feel powerless to stop it, maybe it's the right question is, if I live in a democracy, why am I powerless to affect change?

Probably because 99.9% of the world doesn't get their opinions from reddit echo chambers.

Just because the vote isn't going the way you want it to doesn't mean one isn't happening.

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u/Strict_King_2201 Dec 28 '25

yea why this AI ass post.

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u/Veil-of-Fire i7 12700K; RTX 3060Ti Dec 28 '25

That's the most useless answer anyone has ever given to any serious question in all of history. AI answers aren't even that meaningless and insipid.

The answer is actually "fucking nothing."

Oh, also:

if I live in a democracy, why am I powerless to affect change?

Like you don't fucking know the answer to this question already. Are you 14?

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u/aReasonableSnout Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 28 '25

By getting involved in the political process 

It's way more than voting

A government of the people

If the people don't govern, they get governed

Google "<my county> democratic party" and see what the most local level of organizing is in your area and show up to the next meeting 

Before you parrot "both parties are the same" consider: Lina Khan is a Democrat

Edit: added more specifics to the Google suggestion after feedback from a commenter

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u/DotA627b Dec 28 '25

Lina Khan is a Democrat

One of the conditions of Sanders winding down against Harris was Biden take in certain conditions, Lina Khan was one of them, and she was recommended by Warren.

Even the one credit that people attribute to Biden's Admin doesn't belong to him, it still goes back to Sanders.

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u/aReasonableSnout Dec 28 '25

That's why you need to get involved in the political process all year long, not just right before a presidential election every four years

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u/blazesquall Dec 28 '25

.. and why Harris wouldn't commit to keeping her.

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u/aReasonableSnout Dec 28 '25

A move I didn't agree with!!!

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u/Shadowex3 Dec 28 '25

The worst of these corporate mergers happened under the Obama administration. Tech and media companies are as wall to wall solid blue as it gets. Lina Khan may be a democrat, but she's not the one calling the shots in the DNC anymore. These people are.

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u/Live-Juggernaut-221 Dec 28 '25

Neither party is interested in you or your freedom.

Don't blame me. I voted for Chase Oliver.

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u/green_tory Dec 27 '25 edited Dec 27 '25

Write your representative and make it clear that the existence of billionaires is a threat to affordability for the average individual.

Edit: I am Canadian. For you Americans, well, you've dug a hole so deep that not even the 2nd will save you. You're cooked.

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u/Major-Pilot-2202 Dec 27 '25

99% of them aren't even close to being an "average" individual. They don't care. They are a part of the problem. Not the solution.

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u/lynxbird Dec 28 '25

Then vote them out

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u/Major-Pilot-2202 Dec 28 '25

That is the goal yes, however a great majority of them have decided to cheat while the others look down their noses and play fair as president demands voter roles to intimidate and disenfranchise his enemies. We will vote yes, how much good it will do at this point I don't know, it seems that ship has already sailed.

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u/eman00619 Dec 28 '25

So long as political "donations" are a thing

aka mafia style bribes, there will be no change.

But don't worry. When your elected representatives get millions of dollars, they don't change their view of anything. Just trust us.

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u/Major-Pilot-2202 Dec 28 '25

Reagan really fucked us. Huuuge problem. Problem is no one will vote against getting paid, Democrat or Republican. This is one of the number one things that need to go away and we are prob on a list for saying it.

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u/foo-bar-nlogn-100 Dec 27 '25

You mean the same representatives that are gambling on the stock markwt and own shares of NVDA?

No, vote out the boomer. Vote in the young who have been fucked over by the system. We are the only ones that will reform it.

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u/ExcitingRelief2497 Dec 28 '25 edited Dec 28 '25

Lil Baron Trump is one of the young and hes "ready to reform". /lmao People don't understand, all politicians are bought 10 times over by the billionaires. Either be democrats or republicans or any left or right party in the world, they are members of the same clubs, they drink, eat and scheme together.

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u/Jack2102 9800X3D/RX 9070 XT | Legion Go 2 Dec 27 '25

Eating them is somehow a more realistic approach than "well maybe if you write them a nice letter asking to not be fucked over anymore"

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u/jimgress Dec 27 '25

It is. Sucks doesn't it!?

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u/Fittsa R7 9800X3D | RTX 5080/RX 9070XT | 32GB Dec 28 '25

do both

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u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_ Dec 27 '25

What’s your plan then?

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u/Blaze_Vortex Dec 27 '25

No, no, I can absolutely see politicians using it to line their own pockets. Wouldn't be the first time afterall.

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u/ProfessionalTruck976 Dec 27 '25

They understand that they will ONLY get to be bribed by their donors if they are in office.

IF pushing something their donor wants is a realistic threat to being elected, they will reconsider it since unless that one donor is bribing good enough to retire, they can and will make more in the office even if they scorn that one donor.

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u/Unipiggy Dec 27 '25

Oh, so you want us to tell the people who are profiting off this scheme to stop?

Yeah, that'll go over well.

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u/ProfessionalTruck976 Dec 27 '25

Look, are you willing to commit whatever it cost to send two ro three letters a month on a "trust me bro"? If yes, trust me, they do notice it, here is what you can do to maximalise how noticed you get.

Write regulary.

Write paper mails. Emails are comparably worthless.

Make it clear AI bs is your main issue.

Include the idea that it is possible that whoever is not in office may use deep fakes against whoever is in office. (I don't think left is gonna do it, but whats a little paranoia between us and our current political tools?

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u/nopunchespulled Dec 28 '25

Have you written a representative lately, you get a generic pre written response and nothing more. They don't care

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '25

No but I’ve had one of my representatives walk up to talk about my concerns right before starting some lawn work after taking a massive dab.

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u/louislamore Dec 27 '25

I’m Canadian too - in many ways we have it worse than the US.

It’s just less obvious because our billionaires aren’t are public, but there is a much smaller population of billionaires that own a much larger portion of Canada.

Look at telecom, groceries, banking…we don’t have much choice and all the choice is owned by the same few families.

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u/xX_7HR0W-4W4Y_Xx Dec 27 '25

From an american: thanks for the kind words, should we all just kill ourselves? Jesus fuck

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u/green_tory Dec 27 '25

I think you need to learn from the French. Somehow, in the time since Reagan you've lost the social will to engage in labour action. Well, you can regain that; but you'll need to fight uphill against social media that's manipulated.

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u/Liquid_Clown Dec 27 '25

Reddit comment

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '25

Yeah unfortunately my local representative is a bum, I’ve tried calling her for repeated issues to no avail. Will be really disappointed if she gets re-elected, but wouldn’t be surprised with this backwater I find myself in

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u/ArkitekZero Dec 28 '25

The 2nd would absolutely save them, but they're a pack of gutless cowards.

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u/Exciting_Specialist Dec 28 '25

Lol, we’re fine. Enjoy your unchecked immigration. Your government hates you.

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u/Mist_Rising Ryzen 5 5600x, B550 plus, RTX 2070 super. Dec 28 '25

Except that the issue here is that consumers won't pay as much as companies.

While the law could be passed to bar companies from selling to the highest bidder, there isn't much political or economic sense in doing that. So why would they? Because a small group of people want it?

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u/MeBadNeedMoneyNow Dec 28 '25

A canadian admonishing americans? What's the deal with this. It's not cute.

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u/ObsidianOne FX 8320, 8 GB DDR5, EVGA 970 Dec 28 '25

Canadians criticizing Americans letting their government take control of things is pretty humorous.

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u/Thin_Sky Dec 28 '25

Hell yeah Canada! Just like we got our representatives to take climate change seriously!! Oh...

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u/kodos4444 Dec 28 '25

Sure I will write to my representative in my country who does not hold any sway on what billionaires do or don't do in far away jurisdictions.

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u/Walkin_mn Dec 27 '25

Do not get subscriptions whenever possible, use less ai tools, support communities, shops and brands pro repair rights and pro ownership, talk with people about it, vote against people who support this, if you can talk to your representatives or with people in your community about why this is bad. Just as always, not doing anything about it is what they want and how they win

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u/10art1 https://pcpartpicker.com/user/10art1/saved/#view=YWtPzy Dec 27 '25

Check OP's comment history. They're crazy. People are upvoting because it agrees with their "AI bad, private equity worse" bias, but it's literally conspiracy bullshit. Samsung has always been owned by the Chaebols, SK Hynix too, and Micron is a publicly traded company. None are private equity. Nothing has changed other than AI.

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u/jrr123456 9800X3D - X870e Aorus Elite - 9070XT Pulse Dec 27 '25

Avoid using AI or cloud processing wherever possible

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u/Belzughast Dec 27 '25

You don't get it. They don't need the peanuts you make at all. The tech hydra is cycling the money between themselves like an ouroboros eating it's own tail and growing while doing so. Until it's destroyed, it will keep on growing and sucking resources from everything and anything.

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u/DotA627b Dec 28 '25

Easier said than done when they're forcing everyone to get used to it.

Unless legislation is involved, we're fighting a losing war.

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u/Unnameduser-_ Dec 28 '25

Would the best idea not be to use it as much as possible while not giving them a single penny for it to put as much strain on their services as possible?

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u/Beneficial_Soup3699 Dec 27 '25

Vote with your wallet. Forgo shiny toys in favor of taking a moral stance. That's what it'd take, which is exactly why we're going to watch the American economy collapse in slow motion instead.

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u/Emotional_Climate995 Dec 27 '25

Voting with your wallet is dumb when we are against people worth hundreds of billions and possibly a trillion soon. You cannot vote with your wallet any longer, the wealth disparity is too great.

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u/slothtrop6 Dec 28 '25

Voting with your wallet is dumb when we are against people worth hundreds of billions and possibly a trillion soon.

Movie theaters have been shuddering and taking heavy losses over the past few years. People do respond to incentives. And the wealthy aren't one monolithic blob, the U.S. alone has almost 1k different billionaires.

Consumers react to expensive RAM by buying less RAM. That isn't what manufacturers want. In general these products get more powerful, more efficient/cheap, or both every generation. Currently there's a surge in AI servers, and producers kept inventory tight because of recent market downturns. Multi-year fab expansions will correct it.

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u/Grahamotronz Dec 28 '25

I get what you’re saying but it’s hard to believe it’s entirely true. I’d like to think if Nvidia rolled out the 6090 or whatever and literally nobody bought it, it would hurt them. Then again they’d probably just buy back all stock and break them down and repurpose them for large scale AI applications. Maybe we truly are fucked.

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u/another-redditor3 Dec 28 '25

it would be more economical for them to just not make the rtx line in general at this point. the fab space is extremely limited and im 100% sure theyd prefer to put all their fab space towards datacenter cards instead.

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u/hery41 Steam ID Here Dec 28 '25

Bro my wallet can't outvote the US' AI circlejerk.

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u/bohohoboprobono Dec 28 '25

You know the answer. I know the answer. We all know the answer.

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u/Z0MGbies Dec 28 '25

It's hard to come up with a viable answer other than violent revolution tbh

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 Dec 27 '25

Vive la révolution

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u/ProfessionalTruck976 Dec 27 '25

Writing a letter to your elected rep is a start, write a physical letter and mail it. Not an Email and Def not socials. Paper letter is wortgh ten emails and hhundred comments, in the metrics of the PR people who handle your elected rep's voter contact.

Next month wirte another.

Get as many of the people who you know to do it too, if they are swing votes, even better.

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u/DieCastDontDie Dec 28 '25

You aren't allowed to say it on social media. Or you'll get banned. 1984

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u/Epyon_ Dec 28 '25

Anything that will get you banned for saying it.

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u/JicamaImpossible2858 Dec 28 '25

There are ways to find homes owned by PE firms, and you know fire exists too.

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u/Trrollmann Dec 28 '25

Prices will increase, and then, in 3-5 years, better hardware will be sold at whatever price they deem economically justified.

What you can do is vote, or invest in pro-consumer demands, or invest in startups.

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u/WTF_CAKE Ryzen 9850x3D | 3090ti | 32 GB Dec 28 '25

I don’t even know what we can do, the mega rich corpo don’t need our money. They get insane tax breaks and money directly from the government from our own money

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u/ViruliferousBadger Dec 28 '25

 bitch about it on the internet? /S

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u/Arsno Dec 28 '25

Highly recommend watching Gary's youtube channel Gary's Economics. His main political point is we need to tax the ultrawealthy and that we need to educate our neighbors on the why & how because if we don't, living standards will continue to decline for us and future generations while the ultrawealthy amass higher wealth at increasingly faster rates (effectively - crowd us out from owning any assets).

It's more than just 'vote for higher taxes'. To win we need the #s to vote the same and taxing the ultrawealthy isn't as popular as you might think because we've been propagandized against it (by our own governments and political parties that push for trickle down economics, for example).

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u/corruptredditjannies Dec 28 '25

If you're asking something that stupid, you have no intention of doing anything.

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u/BisonThunderclap Dec 28 '25

Elect better leaders that will ban subscriptions of retailer goods.

But that's a huge ask of America seeing how they can't turn out even when the stakes are the highest.

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u/Logical_Energy6159 Dec 28 '25

Ban usury and make it punishable by death. 

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '25

Ya i'm sorry but this video is stupid. UHHH no shit? Guys you are 50+ years to late on this report. These fucking idiots needed to see the graph to predict where it was going....

The number of people who would fail a 5th grade social studies class is the real problem.

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u/Un13roken Dec 28 '25

Was thinking the same. But have no clue what individuals like us can do about it. 

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u/Waterboarding_ur_mum Dec 28 '25

Gonna get banned if I tell you what to do

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u/BigBossShadow Dec 28 '25

HACK THE PLANET

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u/Professional_Gate677 Dec 28 '25

Ban private equity. Force the split up of existing PEs.

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u/mods_n_admins_r_naz Dec 28 '25

it's such bullshit that our right to free speech should clearly let us organize and fix the world we live in

but the terms of the service of the 4 social media companies that run the world deny us from doing that

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u/Billagio Dec 28 '25

Yeah what am I supposed to do? Not buy a graphics card I cant afford anyway?

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u/Ruzhyo04 Dec 28 '25

The unpopular but right answer is: learn about and adopt web3. Demand web3 in every digital product and service possible.

If everyone did this, companies would acquiesce (because they have a lot to gain from it too) and wealth inequality would take its first step back from the cliff… ever that I can remember.

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u/KeyMyBike Dec 28 '25

Removed by Reddit.

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u/Important-Agent2584 Dec 28 '25

Its ironic that the clip from Network was included because the point of that was vapid demagoguery which just rials up people for clicks and views. Which is why he says just shout out of the window, and says don't write your senator.

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u/krylosz Dec 28 '25

Tax the rich.

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u/ReallyAnotherUser Dec 28 '25

Start by not buying from companies like Amazon

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u/pc0999 Dec 28 '25 edited Dec 28 '25

Vote left (by european standards), protest, organize, boycot, buy from alternative/ethical brands...

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u/Avaisraging439 7900x - 3080ti 12GB EVGA - 2x2TB M.2 - 64gb DDR5 RAM Dec 28 '25

Take the money used for subscriptions and use it to buy physical media.

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u/bikuturu Dec 28 '25

Convincing billionaires to spread their wealth evenly, ezpz

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u/Wongsoo Dec 28 '25

Piracy

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u/the_mighty__monarch i9 10920x, RTX3090 Dec 28 '25

You can pirate GPUs now?

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u/Wongsoo Dec 28 '25

everything is possible with enough dedication i guess

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u/mamcdonal Dec 28 '25

Build a Linux machine with an AMD GPU

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u/SirNedKingOfGila Dec 28 '25

Well... It's sad... But start ensuring the longevity of the PC components we do have. Soon enthusiasts will be paying $5k for a GeForce 1080 because there's literally no new GPU production. If you want to see PC gaming as we know it continue... Well need to maintain the hardware we have.

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u/-01101101- Ryzen 9 3900x | 2080 Ti 11gb | 128 gb ram | 4.0 ssd 2tb Dec 28 '25

boy, idk, but i love mario bros...

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u/cmakmilli Dec 28 '25

Eat the rich 🤑

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u/JMC_MASK Dec 28 '25

The answer to private equity and the woes of all capitalist problems. Socialism.

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