Oh I have no doubt that someone if not several people now own those cards because they were privately and slowly offered up for sale. But they were never pulled from a pack and there's no easy way to distinguish between what was pulled from a pack by a random collector and what was not.
Ultimately, I dont disagree with you. There are plenty enough "pull cards" out in distribution to keep the general public happy. But the process is not or at least, "was not" 100% clean. There are way too many ways to skirt the system subtly and individuals will profit from it. Not "retire on a private island" levels of profit, but a nice chunk of change for not a lot of work.
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