Right, demand is a major factor. People just don't want to acknowledge that "compute time" has a market price far above MSRP. Especially GPU based compute time

Right, demand is a major factor. People just don't want to acknowledge that "compute time" has a market price far above MSRP. Especially GPU based compute time. People want to point at people they don't like "scalpers!" "crypto miners!" instead of attempting to quantify how much of the demand they are, while ignoring other areas where demand has grown where there is also a profit motive rationalizing paying a higher market price: multiple trillion dollar companies and several hundred billion dollar companies are building data centers everywhere for cloud gaming, cloud computing. This inherently requires buying all high end GPUs as fast as possible, and they're going to charge people monthly subscriptions to use them. and then there are the consumer and hobbyists and enthusiasts. It was a supply shock while demand has grown. People just don't want to accept that they'll never get a nice GPU at 2019 prices. That they need a new hobby if thats what they use GPUs for. Many analysts pointed out that gaming has been the most undervalued entertainment sector, because its audience is price sensitive and whiny. Well, now its less undervalued as the hardware is more expensive. Then after that there are the inputs that have increased in the number of dollars needed to get them, a major factor there being the increase in dollars existing and how it pools into certain areas of the economy (which increased demand and scarcity of those things too.)