Have you paid any attention to DDR5 prices prior to writing your comment? Answer Yes or No.

Yes, Framework made their comments like 1 or 2 days ago. They knew what was happening to RAM prices.

Here's what they actually said: "We are going to need to increase our memory pricing soon, but we won’t use this as an excuse to gouge customers like @Dell apparently has and that @Apple does as their norm."

No hypocrisy there.

They were replying to a screenshot showing a huge price per GB on Dell's site, but it looks like that screenshot was wrong? So a mistake on framework's part for not checking sources, but they've had a consistent and reasonable position on pricing.

This is not the same at all

Where's the gouge? DDR5 prices went up more than the 50% they increased their price by.

I wish prices went only 50% more... I see 300+% on the market now.

The they and their refer to Framework in that sentence, but I can see the ambiguity.

This is the fault of manufacturers fixing supply, especially in the case of micron, one of only 3 memory chip manufacturers, deciding to flip the bird to the non-AI consumer market.

Is this the "fault" or is it just the result of rational economic actors?

When rational economic actors have enough power, and use that power to decrease the competitiveness of the market, they gain increasing amounts of "fault".

Oligopolies don't get to use the market forces defense.