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Your definitions of 'real needs' and 'illicit needs' don't line up with mine.

It's one use case versus another, neither being illegal, and neither, arguably, being specifically positive for humanity.

I'd like to buy a GPU for both gaming and mining, but I'm also unwilling to pay the exorbitant cost, but I understand the reason, and that's life. I also want Telsas to be cheaper in Australia, but they're also prohibitively expensive for the likes of me.

I'm used to non-immediate gratification.

If those GPUs were on shelves, they’d predominantly be sold to people to play AAA title video games instead. It does suck that I have to play my games at a lower frame rate, but my plight of retail inconvenience is hardly a grievous moral injustice.

Sad, anger, wasteful, but should be legal.