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Baloney.

There are great many people who would die if the price of their food, or their water, or their medicine doubled tomorrow.

If the price of flash doubled, many people would have to choose between less storage, slow storage, or less money for other things. But nobody will die.

In fact, I bet the intersection between the people whose lives would be at risk from a sharp increase in food, water or medicine, and the people buy any amount of flash every quarter is nearly zero.

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Imagine that you run a charity. Your job is to save lives. Should you spend every penny you get on medicine and spend nothing on IT? Of course not. It's impossible to run a charity like that. You must have computers, and you would prefer it if they are fast and reliable. You choose to divert some money from your programs to have efficient administration.

Now imagine the cost of flash doubles. You're forced to choose between "less storage, slow storage, or less money for other things." All of those options mean more death.

Flash storage can be more important than medicine for the sick or food for the hungry.