Component shortage Memes

Imagine explaining to your kids that daddy's retirement plan was buying 128 gigs of DDR5 RAM back when it cost more than a used Honda Civic. But here's the thing—he wasn't wrong. In September 2025, when DDR5 was still fresh and overpriced, that was basically a down payment on a house. Fast forward a few years and those sticks are either worth their weight in gold or sitting in a drawer next to the Beanie Babies. The real galaxy brain move here is treating RAM like Bitcoin. Most people panic-buy GPUs during shortages, but this guy saw the future: memory is the new currency. His kids are eating fancy dinner while other families are still running 16GB and wondering why Chrome eats their soul. Diversify your portfolio, they said. Invest in stocks, they said. Meanwhile this absolute legend invested in the one thing guaranteed to appreciate: PC components during a global shortage. That's generational wealth right there.