It's not taking my ability away, I just have to pay more, same as anyone else, according to the laws of supply and demand. The water rights under my house are my own property so your analogy doesn't work.
No, it's not same as anyone, the AI and datacenter companies have long term supply agreements at lower prices, essentially front-running the retail market. These agreements redistrict the volume available for retail and we end up scalped.
At every step the corporate purchases happen at lower price points, like this:
Price at 10 ->
corporate, high volume, buys at 10, hoarding of hardware ->
price up, retail buys at 20 due to a starved retail space ->
corporate, high volume, buys at 20, more hoarding ->
price up, retail buys at 30 due to a starved retail space ->
It's not really any different from wholesale vs retail, of course a seller would prefer higher volume higher margin customers over lower ones. That is in no way scalping as defined. Just because you're not a high volume customer does not mean you are getting scalped. It's like saying because Sysco doesn't sell directly to you and only to restaurants that the restaurant is "scalping" you when you buy their food. Your explanations really are not very convincing because the behavior you're describing is how wholesale works in any field.
