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>that the limited supply goes to the buyer who need it the most

Everything else you said is accurate, but this is not. Supply will go to those most able to pay, not those who need it the most. It is not a moral allocation, which your language implies.

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Nobody really "needs" RAM immediately though, like a heart or a lung or something.

That’s a bold statement to make in the 21st century when nearly everything is run on computers, including cars, planes, hospital networks, etc etc.

Not really. They can get RAM just fine, and delay upgrade/refresh cycles to stretch existing component lifecycle, which was already very long if they needed to.

They can get RAM at drastically more expensive rates. And not all critical applications have unlimited budgets to absorb the increase. It’s the reverse Jevon’s paradox.

What if it’s for the machines that support this surgery?

Someone please put RAM into Maslow's hierarchy of needs

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