Rex 3090 isn’t free. Even if you already owned it, it wasn’t free. That’s years of a $20 subscription

It's an asset, though, and bizarrely it's one that's been appreciating the past 5 years

I took the same attitude. The hardware isn’t getting cheaper, it’s getting more expensive.

As I see it, an investment in AI hardware is an investment in my own future.

IE, I drive my car a couple of days a week, and it’s perfectly normal to spend $500 a month on an asset like that. When you factor in the SPACE it takes up, that’s the REAL cost of owning a car: the real estate you have to buy for your car to occupy.

Once that’s factored in, the “true” cost of having a car can easily be $2000 a month, even for a crummy car. The space that the car occupies is expensive.

Yet people balk at spending even $2000 on a GPU.

Makes no sense to me. I choose to invest in the future.

I see your point but we could go pretty far with this logic. motherboard ? cpu? ram!!! screen? fancy keyboard? etc..