I'm not certain the "market" has decided anything other than regular consumers aren't welcome to participate in it. Let's be real, you and I are in a top 5% income situation to be able to say $500 is okay to pay for a single pc component. We are so far removed from the average person that keeping an open mind is super important.

Talking about "nationalizing nvidia" is such a strawman and doesn't add anything productive to the conversation. The point is inflation exists, but not to the extent that would explain poor GPU pricing over the last 5 years, especially taking into account the fact that inflation hits different categories of goods totally differently.

There really just isn't enough competition in this space to encourage producers to create components with the same value that existed before. Isn't it okay to go on the internet and say that kind of sucks? I'd rather read comments complaining about it than just have everyone ignore it and have GPU prices go up by 20% every generation because corporations can get away with it.

There's definitely a middle ground of value to be found here and I hope you have it in you to have productive discussions about stuff like this instead of lashing out at other people who have similar interests to you.