Listen, buddy. It is never going to be cured. It's bad. There's not a fucking thing we can do about it. So we may as well get a laugh out of it. Unless you have a magical solution that for some reason doesn't work in the presence of humor, howsabout you take the stick out of your ass, grab a beer, and relax a little? All your fuming isn't improving the situation either.
Also, some of the other comments make me think you don't know what you're talking about.
It's also not very demanding. 16GB of RAM is all of $90 these days. I have 16GB in my laptop just because why not? It bumped the cost hardly at all over 8GB.
On the other hand, I don't have 16GB of RAM because with 4GB of RAM I almost never hit swap space. Hell, my netbook has 2GB of RAM, and I still hit swap space very infrequently. (And I run KDE! No lightweight WM trickery here.)
I've been wondering for a while now what it is people do that they need so much RAM. And don't say gaming. I play loads of games on my 4GB box.
Why would anyone consider it responsible to have children when they don't have a year's expenses in savings?
Well, you see, when a man loves a woman, sometimes children just happen. So, what, people shouldn't have sex without a year's expenses in savings?
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton