>>2587 (OP) It's probably going to hose tech careers for a while but since it's mostly Nvidia/AMD/Samsung/Micron and AI companies circlejerking each other with money it might be less worse than the 2008 housing crash. It doesn't seem like millions of people are going to lose their homes or be unemployed for years since all of this is concentrated on Nvidia selling stuff to AI companies. Government bailouts will be expensive though.
Cheap RAM or SSDs probably won't happen in 2027. Even if all these companies start producing consumer RAM again there's so much demand for them that which itself will keep prices high anyway. Maybe in 2028 or 2029 is when we'll see some affordability slowly come back as they try to keep up with demand.
>>2587 (OP) The collapse is unlikely to be truly apocalyptic, as it's mostly the elites of society who are exposed to it, and they have special tools available to them to prevent themselves from losing too much money. That's why they are the elites and the rest of us never will be, no matter how much we earn.
>>2611 At least the RAM lasts 10-20 years in most cases. It's the SSDs that are going to burn a hole in your pocket since they can only be written and read to a finite number of times. I turned off page file completely on my PC.