I'm not sure how to feel about collectibles, I bought a lot of baseball card packs and didn't open them as an "investment" as a kid. Probably they beat inflatio

I'm not sure how to feel about collectibles, I bought a lot of baseball card packs and didn't open them as an "investment" as a kid. Probably they beat inflation, but the market would be lower if people like me could ever be bothered to sell. In the case of digital "assets" though, I don't find it so legitimate. AFAIK, they can change their ToS whenever they like or cancel this version of the game, etc. Perhaps a shrewd system would pretend to be indifferent yet force them to escrow money for obligations related to hosting these assets and eventually make them wonder why they didn't just print cards and be done with it as complicated civil cases begin to emerge. (But should we really let the human endeavour degrade to the point where bartering pointless collectibles is where the smart people get allocated? I kind of agree with the IRS that we should add disincentives.)