Indeed. This is especially important because if, say, TSMC or Nvidia increase their MSRP's, then they go go re-invest that into additional capacity to solve the

Indeed. This is especially important because if, say, TSMC or Nvidia increase their MSRP's, then they go go re-invest that into additional capacity to solve the supply shortage. Instead, middlemen take the markup profits and have no ability to put that towards additional production. I do wonder if it's a bit of an backdoor anti-inflation deal thing: - TSMC/Nvidia boards don't want to raise prices because it might cause rank-and-file consumers to feel like inflation is higher, and there's perhaps fear it could lead to a cycle of increasing across-the-board inflation on wide basket of goods. - USA/etc offers TSMC/etc subsidies for building additional capacity to make up for the revenue/reinvestment shortfall on keeping artificially low MSRP's. And then this is a ham-handed attempt to exert some limit on any scalping operation getting "too large" and potentially drive consumer prices down a bit more until the additional capacity (funded by govt. subsidies instead of MSRP) finally comes online. Is that hypothesis/"mad ramblings" completely unreasonable? It might be. I just really feel that the producers should increase prices and reinvest in capacity, rather than allow middlemen to skim the arbitrage.