42 sats \ 2 replies \ @davidw OP 5 Apr \ parent \ on: The Collectible Culture culture
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.
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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