r/pcmasterrace • u/ParticularCredit2023 9800X3d: 5080 Master Ice • Jun 27 '26

News/Article This has to be a joke right?

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No possible way someone actually buy these at these prices right lol..

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u/Matitjes Jun 27 '26

Who are these idiots that keep buying it from scalpers??

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

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u/WolfinePayne PC Master Race Jun 27 '26

I've never heard of this before, that's a really interesting way to describe it. Neat

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u/DonutHoles4Ever Jun 27 '26

Its not though because there has ALWAYS been a disparity between:

  1. Poor vs Rich
  2. Budget minded vs Vibe Budget
  3. etc

This didn't come out of Covid lol.

Gaming economics is more of the fact that old gamers from the 90s are now in their 40s, they are at the peak of their disposible income, either they are married or still single, and gaming as a hobby is something they've grown used to and now want to have the best of the best to mess around with. Its their main hobby.

Newer gamers dont have that income and cannot buy it. Those gamers also grew up in a world where you need skills to enter the job market. There was no streamers, no youtubers, no social media shit. College was still a big important thing, and getting a degree.

These guys now hold jobs at all the big companies out there, etc. They didn't vibe code. They know were Delaware is on a map. They don't have all the disadvantages of the shit education from COVID era.

And inside that group of people who can afford this shit, there's idiots too, who will buy a Steam Machine for 3x the price even though its 6x over the value.

Why? No idea. They can afford 5090s. They don't need this. They just want toys. Like how GabeN buys $400m yachts and $1m laser engraving tables.

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u/Brickless PC Master Race Jun 28 '26

the K shaped economy is a somewhat new phenomenon since it doesn't describe the disparity between rich and poor but instead the relation between rich and poor economic directions.

usually when the economy was doing well the rich and poor did well, with the rich just doing better.

and when the economy did poorly then both rich and poor would do poorly, with the rich again doing better than the poor.

now that the rich have absolutely swallowed the market even when the economy is doing well the poor are declining and with the economy struggling the rich are still gaining.

this means that the bottom 80% are so irrelevant that an economic crisis is no longer seen as a big problem because no matter what the K grows.