221 sats \ 3 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 5 Apr \ on: The Collectible Culture culture
Whew. That was a great lunchtime read. And I've got a ton of tabs open from those links.
I've collected small things at various points in my life (comics, MTG cards, books), but all the stuff you focus on is generally out of my range (I do have a random collection of nifty foreign coins, but it's very much a cheap "random stuff" one as opposed to a proper collection). I certainly wonder how collecting would occur in a Bitcoin standard economy, but I think that things like collecting and other hobbies may end up informing just how a Bitcoin economy develops and L2 stuff evolves (and I have neither the tech nor the economic prognostication skills to guess what exactly will happen).
That’s awesome. Was that something you started in your youth?
There’s definitely a lot of pleasure with keeping items and dusting them off to show visitors or friends.
I guess with my ramblings inside this article, the key takeaway that I had was that collecting has shifted away from that behaviour towards directly benefiting financially as the primary goal.
Flipping artwork, coins, cars for currency rather than generating the feel good factor you allude to above.
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Oh yeah, most of my collecting habits are leftovers from when I was a kid.
And yeah, I think "collecting" has bifurcated, and the people who do it for joy and for investing are largely separate (though there's probably some overlap in some places; one of the things I find fascinating about art collecting are the people who do buy art and store it at freeports, but also commission high-quality dupolicats/fogeries to display at home).
But both are significant markets, and I'm curious about how they'll change.
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The Freeport story is fascinating
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