Average Korean wedding costs as much as an NVIDIA GB300 DGX Station, and people are rethinking marriage
alvelda · x · 2026-09-07
A viral quip from junsong: after realizing the average Korean wedding costs about the same as a GB300 DGX Station, he's "seriously questioning if marriage is even necessary." alvelda reposted it as "a little too much truth." AI compute is now expensive enough to benchmark against life milestones.
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