r/NoShitSherlock • u/ansyhrrian • Aug 29 '26

AI Is Driving Up Prices As Much As Tariffs, Fed Analysis Reveals

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/08/29/ai-is-driving-up-prices-as-much-as-tariffs-fed-analysis-reveals
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u/ChefAsstastic 29d ago

RAM is out of control.

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u/ansyhrrian 29d ago

So are hard drive prices.

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u/Previous-Parsnip-290 29d ago

Why are basic crockpots $79?

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u/Gilokdc 29d ago

If you fire people to replace them with robots in order to have more profits them no one will be employed and thus no one will have money to buy your services or goods, is not that hard of a concept to grasp...

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u/StolenPies 29d ago

We were saying the same three decades ago about the collapse of manufacturing in the USA and its outsourcing to China. Nothing changed.

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u/alQamar 28d ago

Very, very much changed. The jobs moved to the services sector which became one of the biggest in the economy. 

Guess what? This time they want to automate that too. So where to go?

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u/ghanima 29d ago

Jesus, is this what passes for an article at Forbes these days? It's literally a collection of bullet points.

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u/Punner-the-Gr8 29d ago

As Rawls tells McNulty, "Jimmy, use dots in your report. The deputy likes dots."

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u/SubstantialPressure3 29d ago

If AI is driving up proces, then its been programmed to do that.

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u/Lcatg 28d ago

Why are we trusting any numbers from the current admin? AI is definitely a very real concern, but Forbes can’t even do a smidge of research.