In a Dutch thrift store, a Reddit user paid €12.50 for a Kingston Fury DDR5 memory kit that retails for up to $600 — a find that speaks less to luck than to the strange dislocations of a market where value has become untethered from price. The so-called RAMpocalypse has made memory one of the most inflated components in consumer computing, and yet somewhere in the Netherlands, a high-end kit sat on a shelf priced as if it were a paperback novel. Whether the modules work or not, the story is a small, vivid reminder that markets are human systems — and human systems misplace things.