> artificial price differentiation is sometimes what it takes to make a business viable Sometimes wage theft is what it takes to make a business viable, so I d

> artificial price differentiation is sometimes what it takes to make a business viable Sometimes wage theft is what it takes to make a business viable, so I don't really buy this as an argument. > processors selected for lower tiers can be chosen precisely because they didn’t meet the bar for the high performance batch This is a better argument > The alternative world is you get no affordable processor at all You probably do, just maybe their performance doesn't double every year. I would say that's probably an interesting tradeoff to make, depending on how catastrophic one thinks the state of the world is today.