it's a little piece of mass produced paper that cost less than a cent to produce and has other than the collection purpose 0 value.
Even worse a fire or a flood and it's gone.
The idea is the same, we have been trained to want to consume and own useless crap.
The digital world is the only place our hyper materialistic way of life can go on.
I sound like a disgusting commie saying that, but we own so much useless shit.
But part of that was because they game with bubble gum....and the cards were bonuses....then people wanted to get the full set...but the bubble gum was the product not the cards.....now it's skip the gum and mass produce fake collectables
How old is the concept of Magic the gathering and buying cards packs? I remember buying stickers and trading cards back in the eighties.
Basically the physical version of "Loot boxes" something the market accepted ages ago.
Physical collections implies scarcity....digital does not...and it also is a value of intrinsic kind...digital is not...
You also 'own' it ...digital you don't.
Physical beats digital every which way....except for portability, accessibility, and cheapness
it's a little piece of mass produced paper that cost less than a cent to produce and has other than the collection purpose 0 value. Even worse a fire or a flood and it's gone.
The idea is the same, we have been trained to want to consume and own useless crap. The digital world is the only place our hyper materialistic way of life can go on.
I sound like a disgusting commie saying that, but we own so much useless shit.
People were trading baseball cards long before that.
But part of that was because they game with bubble gum....and the cards were bonuses....then people wanted to get the full set...but the bubble gum was the product not the cards.....now it's skip the gum and mass produce fake collectables