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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
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There are two very related issues at play here (well, 3 including inflation)

One is corporate greed, the other is people getting high on FOMO and wanting the totl everything 

You combine all that and we end up were we are
gpt
Also the demand in the GPU market has been propped up by miners for years even during the times they didn't cause shortages. Now with GPU mining being essentially dead on ethereum, there's a chance the market will cool it with prices