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These 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
by bdowling 4y ago
These 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