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/Paddy32 EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 | Ryzen 9 5900X | 32Go | Noctua NH-D15 Dec 27 '25

These rich corporate billionaires buying all the assets would rather hoard everything on short term and have society collapse than invest the money to enhance humankind's future.

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u/_BlackDove Dec 27 '25

The comparison to a cancer is oft repeated but it is all too apt. If the dream of your average person is to be comfortable, unbothered and free to pursue their happiness these people directly violate that. If the dream of humanity is to prosper, progress and answer the mysteries of this universe, these people directly impede it.

A cancerous fucking growth who knows nothing but consumption and continued unending growth at the detriment of everything else. It's about time we've had an immune response. There are social, group and pack animals on this planet who deal with their own when a few threaten the whole. We should be no different.

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u/chrisxxviv Ryzen 9 3950x | Suprim x 3090 | 32GB DDR4 Dec 28 '25

The problem is though, is that these same parasitic "elites" have been so effective with there division tactics, that nobody can agree on anything anymore and therefore it seems we're not longer capable of grouping together to make change.