“I’ve been saving for months to get the Corsair Dominator 64GB CL30 kit,” one beleagured PC builder wrote on Reddit. “It was about $280 when I looked,” said u/RaidriarT, “Fast forward today on PCPartPicker, they want $547 for the same kit? A nearly 100% increase in a couple months?”

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      20 hours ago

      No. The housing crash really started to go off when regular people could not pay their bills. These arent regular folks here. These are mega corporations.

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        14 hours ago

        that’s how a bubble works. they are mega corporations that represent like 90% of the economy. their companies go under, the people working for them are jobless all at once.

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          14 hours ago

          Are you like… just not reading the parts where I explain how these are massively different situations?

          2 things can be bubbles while being massively different in the forces at play.

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            13 hours ago

            yes i agree. i was a bit absentminded and though you were saying something slightly different. disregard my tired ass.