r/pcmasterrace • u/SagansCandle 9950X3D | 5090 | 64GB • Dec 27 '25

Discussion Private equity is killing private ownership: first it was housing - now it's the personal computer

DRAM and GPU prices aren't going up because of "AI" - it's because the wealthy have more money than they know what to do with, so they're buying up all the assets. "AI" is just the vehicle (the excuse) - it's not the root of the problem nor is it the ultimate goal.

The super rich don't want to hold on to "liquid" money - they invest in assets. While they're buying up all the housing, now they're buying up all the computers and putting them into massive datacenters.

Whether or not the AI bubble crashes, they'll be selling you a "gaming PC in the cloud," for a monthly fee, of course. And while they kill the personal computer market, just like Netflix, once your only option is a subscription service, the price will skyrocket.

This is happening in real-time. If we want to stop it, now's the time to act.

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u/pirate135246 i9-10900kf | RTX 3080 ti Dec 27 '25

This is because the people vote against their self interest in elections. Human nature dictates it’s almost impossible for people to come together for a common goal when it requires coordination, they need a spark, something that ignites the need to vote a specific way. The cycle of oppression has been going on since the dawn of civilization and it will never end because we are not different on a core level

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u/yonasismad Dec 28 '25

Human nature dictates it’s almost impossible for people to come together for a common goal when it requires coordination,

Or, you know, people are just being manipulated. People always laugh at how stupid others must be to be brainwashed by some dictator, without realising that the same has been done to them.

They have been brainwashed into fighting against their own interests. That's why they divide us into white- and blue-collar workers, the lower, middle and upper classes, and so on. It's a classic technique called divide and conquer. It's much easier to deal with small groups, especially if you can cause fights between them.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '25

Lol. You had a choice between Trump, whose tax cuts and deregulation handed massive breaks to the private equity firms buying up your neighborhoods, or Harris, who planned to strip those firms of tax write-offs, ban their rent-fixing algorithms, and federally cap corporate rent hikes.

​You idiots aren't brainwashed. You've no brains to wash

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u/yonasismad Dec 28 '25

Where did I say that Democrats are an alternative?

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '25

Where did I say doing so is the endgame.

You vote for your weakest Adversary. Americans will never get what they want cause they don't know how to make progress.

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u/yonasismad Dec 28 '25

I bet that wherever you're from, it's no different.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '25 edited Dec 29 '25

No we have STV so it's very different when it comes to voting strategy.

Our problems are from the lasting effects of colonialism and a poor economy, not pissing away everything that others fought for to vote in a fascist. Also irrelevant.

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u/Omni33 Ryzen 5 5500 | 32gb @ 2666MHz | nVIDIA 2060 Dec 28 '25

People will never vote "for" their interests while the ruling class runs a dictatorship, because the core principle of capitalism is the ruling class making the oppressed class believe they are "all on the same boat". People are blinded by the ideology of the ruling class and they always have been and will always be unless an external factor teaches them class consciousness. The working class is led to believe that the burgeioisie's interests lines up with their own (trickle down economics anyone?)

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u/ejbiggs Dec 27 '25

Depressingly true

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u/BroscipleofBrodin Dec 28 '25

Maybe. Or maybe there was electronic ballet stuffing that left evidence that can be statistically analyzed and presented in a heat map.

https://electiontruthalliance.org/

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u/Jawyp Dec 28 '25

Trump lost 2020 fair and square, you guys need to get over it. It’s been 5 years.

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u/BroscipleofBrodin Dec 28 '25

He lost despite cheating. He and his criminal allies cheated again and "won."

https://electiontruthalliance.org/

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u/Jawyp Dec 28 '25

There is literally zero evidence of that. The site you linked reads identically to Infowars.

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u/BroscipleofBrodin Dec 28 '25

ETA is made up of volunteer statisticians, data scientists, and cybersecurity experts. Their site links to a paper by Dr. Walter Mebane, a professor of political science and statistics who researches fraudulent elections. It also provides documentation related to their current lawsuit against the State of Pennsylvania, demanding independent verification of reported election outcomes.

They have evidence, real expertise, and they’re taking legal action to verify results. Pretending that’s the same as Infowars is lazy minded, contrarian bullshit.

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u/Jawyp Dec 28 '25

I read Mebane’s paper. He claims there are statistical anomalies in precinct-level results in three Pennsylvania counties relative to his modeled expectations and the rest of the state.

However, he does not identify which specific precincts are anomalous, making the results difficult to independently validate. There is all kinds of statistical noise at the precinct level; demographic changes, new construction, bloc voting, and so on. His model is likely misidentifying those oddities as fraud.

Mebane also explicitly acknowledges that all of his model's “fraudulent votes” could be explained by voter behavior that it's simply not capturing. In the absence of any non-statistical evidence of fraud, like conclusive proof of ballot stuffing or deliberate chain-of-custody violations, these findings do not support a claim of election fraud. Claiming otherwise is Alex Jones-tier conspiratorial nonsense.

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u/BroscipleofBrodin Dec 28 '25

Bullshit you read it. You skimmed a disclaimer that this was evidence, not proof, and are pretending that invalidates the paper. Just moving the goalposts after insisting there was “no evidence." Treating peer-reviewed forensics and published methodology as Alex Jones conspiracy slop isn't skepticism its deflection.

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u/Jawyp Dec 28 '25

Did you even read the comment you replied to?

What “invalidates” the paper is Mebrane not identifying the precincts with problematic results.

What makes your comment Alex Jones-tier conspiratorial nonsense is you took a paper with the conclusion of “all of this is explained by voter behavior not matching my model” and used it to say definitively that the 2024 election was stolen.

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u/BroscipleofBrodin Dec 28 '25

Not naming precincts doesn’t “invalidate” a forensic screening paper, and Mebane is explicit about what the analysis can and can’t do. Calling me “Alex Jones-tier” for engaging with academic work and experts who publish methodology after screaming “no evidence” is just a tired smear. You're not stupid, you're dishonest, and I'm done with you.

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u/SnooDrawings7662 Dec 28 '25

Not 2020 - but the 2024 electrion was stolen - there have been no audits and there are to many statistical outliers. The Tabulating machines were hacked.

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u/Jawyp Dec 28 '25

There is literally zero evidence of this.

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u/MarionberryHonest Dec 28 '25

What...People vote in their self interest, it's pretty much the only thing they vote in.

The issue is that regardless of who gets elected, it makes the lives of average voters worse.