Car manufacturing grinds to a halt. Remember what happened to auto prices in 2022? 10x that.

New appliances cannot be manufactured. What dos the absolute absence of new durable goods do to the economy?

There’s no new iPhone for five years. No new electronic hardware at all. What does Apple stock do?

Own any index funds? Those tank too.

Rinse and repeat

Thinking of it as “affordable pcs” is exactly wrong which is actually useful. Invert your totally wrong answer and now you have an actual thought.

I can see why they might not be on your personal list straight away, no. But I bet weapons, logistics, comand&control etc all do need them. So generals and admirals might start sweating just a little.

Except everything that runs on electricity has a CPU nowadays; the world as it is cannot function without computing. Your bank, your (municipal) government, airplanes, ships, satellites, televisions, the cell network, cash registers, you get the picture.

I realize the CPU's that requires won't implode on day one, but computing becoming unaffordable or even economically unfeasible will have disastrous knock on effects.

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