It's not about the monetary cost, it's about the model of society: this model is about consuming always more, making "bigger" machines with "bigger" components, because it is possible. But it doesn't question the environmental cost, it doesn't ask why we actually need bigger machines to mostly do similar things as what we did some time ago.
A burger with beef will cost roughly the same as a vegetarian burger. Even if nothing can replace beef, one should question whether there is a need for beef and if it could be replaced, because the alternative emits less CO2. Same goes for RAM.
Yeah right, mostly do the same, but then your phone records video at 400MB/s and then finds and tags everyone's faces that you can easily find at single tap...
A burger with beef will cost roughly the same as a vegetarian burger. Even if nothing can replace beef, one should question whether there is a need for beef and if it could be replaced, because the alternative emits less CO2. Same goes for RAM.