The Rational Markets Hypothesis

To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".

A Mastodon post humorously describes the RAM price surge as a chain of nonexistent memory, money, GPUs, datacenters, infrastructure, demand, and profits. The punchline mocks the idea that these irrational market conditions are being explained as part of the "rational markets hypothesis". It can be shared as a reaction to AI hype, tech speculation, or absurd economic reasoning. EN: A Mastodon post humorously describes the RAM price surge as a chain of nonexistent memory, money, GPUs, datacenters, infrastructure, demand, and profits. The punchline mocks the idea that these irrational market conditions are being explained as part of the "rational markets hypothesis". It can be shared as a reaction to AI hype, tech speculation, or absurd economic reasoning.

• @antichirst / 21270 2025-12-23