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Companies who build AI datacenters or NVIDIA are just as "greedy" as the company that sold the other user a 40MB hdd or the company you bought your last piece of equipment from. It's driven by the dynamic of the free market, not by individuals who you could attribute something like greed to.
I'm referring to how there's been a trend of "cost of X just increased 15%". Granted I can't, and won't presume to, speak for every individual case but we have access to know enough that these increases often aren't tied to necessity within a company. When profits are increasing year-over-year but the price still goes up, that's a decision made by a greedy someone(s) somewhere up in the pecking order.
If higher prices wouldn't throttle demand, virtually every company (extremely few "ethical" exceptions) would increase prices. That's how prices are set in the first place: probe what customers are willing to pay. It's the game that's greedy, not the players. Even you and me could become corrupted if we've find ourselves higher up in the pecking order.