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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
You must be pretty young to the point where you think this stuff is super expensive and you have to be rich. Dont get me wrong, $1600 for a GPU is a lot but most people here are probably blue collar workers with normal jobs, and some probably use credit.
gpt
In 2017 $1600 was enough to get me a 1080ti, i7-8700k, and premium components in every other  component. 5-6 years later and now that only covers the GPU, even if it’s “doable” it’s still laughable that this is where we’re at now