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If I had found these I would have held on to them but also never considered them of any value beyond an unusual oddity I wonder how often things actually go do
by kristopolous 4y ago
If I had found these I would have held on to them but also never considered them of any value beyond an unusual oddity
I wonder how often things actually go down like that.
Like if I found an actual Van Gogh painting I'd probably think "wow this art student was studying van Gogh. That's pretty good. Looks just like him. Cool"
- boomboomsubban 4y agoThe opposite probably happens at least as often. "Wow this is such a good painting it must be a missing van Gogh. I'd better pay someone to verify it so I can become rich!"
- bdowling 4y agoThese are only rare and valuable because (a) enough people alive now know about this kind of thing and (b) when they were relevant, most people threw them away because they were junk. That’s a both (1) an uncommon thing, and (2) interesting to society.
- kristopolous 4y agoI think there's more at play because you also just described my Bitcoin wallet from 2010. It's still just as much junk. There's some weird fetishism that goes with it. Like some kind of hoarding. I'm sure there's a vast body of psychological literature on this I've never heard of