What’s the problem with that? Nothing wrong with it all I’m my eyes, infact I have also jumped on the mining train with a small 4 card rig, as well as starting to invest, I intend to add an additional 3 cards at some point. Miners arnt to blame for the price hikes, retailers are.
You have to look at the big picture/longer term picture. And I don't just mean "poor gamers can't get an upgrade". That's the least of our worries.
We know what the impact of mining is today, and we know that there is potentially no limit to the growth of mining currently.
When all GPUs find their way into mining rigs, when mining accounts for 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3 of the world's electricity use, when TSMC is selling all its wafers to mining corps, when all GPU vendors are selling all their stock directly to mining farms...
I hope/pray for a total crash in this crypto madness, because if it keeps growing and growing... it could consume all our resources. That's not even a joke or an over-reaction. Without regulation, since every single GPU makes a profit, since there is no reason not to grow and grow and grow your mining rigs until we all farm with warehouses full of them...
It's not going to end well.
The fact is: people here don't care because in the
here and now, they are making some $$$. And that's literally the
only thing that matters to many/most of you.
Unless something puts the brakes on this "industry" (which produces nothing), it's going to cause nothing but massive problems in the not-too-distant future. Don't take it from me... economists, environmentalist, politicians... there are people very worried about what crypto means for the future.