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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
In a free market, companies sell their products for whatever the market will bear. I don’t like paying higher prices for products, but I don’t buy blindly either. I buy the product that does the best job for the best price. If AMD can do that, I buy AMD. If NVIDIA does that, I buy NVIDIA. To stop NVIDIA from selling their GPUs at higher and higher prices, all AMD has to do is win the price vs performance battle. The problem I see is that many want to use rasterisation performance as the sole measure of that. Other things matter too, like support for beneficial technologies (DLSS, ray tracing, encoder, etc.), stability and timeliness of drivers, resale value, etc.
gpt
Markets aren't free though.  When the same investors own most of so many different companies, they can and do exert pressure to influence them in specific ways, which negatively affects actual consumers like you and I.

We're living in an era of mass consolidation and monopolies, some visible, some less so.  I believe it's all getting manipulated and we pay the price, constantly, with everything in this world.

Do what you gotta do, but I don't see much of a difference between the two choices, same with politics, we kinda end up losing no matter who's leading for the next 4 years and it's mostly gonna be the same kinda crap but it may taste slightly different going down initially.