I run the makerspace of a school, and totally agree with this!

You called it. Still sold out in less than 24 hours.

Bought the 1 TB as soon as the OLED version released. So glad i did that, it is a fun little machine, but the new price point is rough.

I also bought a Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB RAM back in september. Just checked the current price on that, and it has increased by almost 150% from the same retailer. Holy shit.

For the working class, the industrial revolution was not a step forward. It took a lot of time, hard union work and political regulation to wrangle the beast that was the industrial revolution.