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>Yeah, but will you have any ROI on that? There is an old joke, 4 art collectors are stranded on a desert island with only a Picasso painting (or, a rare camer
by brk 4y ago
>Yeah, but will you have any ROI on that?
There is an old joke, 4 art collectors are stranded on a desert island with only a Picasso painting (or, a rare camera), and they all managed to make a living.
- Jistern 4y agoI really did laugh out loud. Here: take your upvote. That reminds me of the saying, "The lottery is a tax on the stupid." To me, it's also reasonable to say, "Buying lottery tickets is a cry of the desperate." By the way, while we are on the subject of gambling, I don't like the phrase "casino capitalism" because the term "capitalism" is usually a smokescreen which distorts and obfuscates how, for example, the US economy actually works (hint: the powerful collude to enrich themselves). But I do like the "casino" part of the phrase.
- cduzz 4y agoGambling is entertainment; ideally you buy the lottery ticket to make the 2 minute "numbers bouncing around" show entertaining. In the same way poker is only an engaging game if there are stakes, and the 2 universal stakes are "money" and "time". Anyhow, this is a cool artifact. I'm not sure if its 14 million metric units of cool or not but I'm not part of that market. Uses for this include: 1. Show it off! It's cool! 2. Make 2 more of them, sell them both secretly, keep the original 3. Look for DNA from the leica inventor, make an army baby leica inventors 4. put in a box, move it to another country, sell it and not pay taxes 5. look at it, it's cool 6. sell it to someone else with lots of money and in interest in camera stuff
- Jistern 4y ago