Its also neccessary in many cases using any PCIe device with BAR-addressable memory on-board above the threshold, not just vram.

There is no spoon.

We have a remarkable tendency to believe that our particular technological moment is somehow unprecedented. Locke's labor mixing never required kinetic effects. Talent, skill, judgment, creativity, effort, and, more importantly, time; were always part of the concept.

Perhaps the mistake is not that technology ever changed what is valued, but that we have.