LOOK
i have a huge problem with this clack thing and it has nothing to do with clacks. it has to do with the misuse of any allusion to "supply/demand". idiots who think about economics for like a month and then never bother to try to understand it again will shout "SUPPLY AND DEMAND ARE LINEAR CONSTRAINTS ON PRICE!!" all effing day but they have no idea what they're talking about. micro markets don't really obey this when you look closely enough, and macro markets DEFINITELY DO NOT OBEY THIS. here's a thought experiment. WHERE THE HELL DOES DEMAND COME FROM? think about clacks. they are keycaps, yes, but they aren't really keycaps that have only function. they are like 99% form. so does the demand come from the number of keyboards in the market? no. does the demand have to do with the fact that there are no other keyboard decorations on the market? absolutely not.
it's exactly like people who don't realize that a) everything is a spring and b) hooke's law is a first order approximation of SOME SPAN of the behavior of every material. for every material, there exists a linearizable span along the stress/strain curve over which hooke's law applies. but this could be like "when there are 3000lbs sitting on it" as in the leaf spring/rear torsion beam in a C5 corvette, or the very edge of behavior of a ceramic composite, right before it hits yield and shatters into a million pieces.
GEEKHACK IS ABOUT UNDERSTANDING SCIENCE DAMNIT.
and clacks. it's obviously about clacks too, but you know, understanding them...
i guess.
shrug