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Originally Posted by Brent G.
Kids are more informed now and less likely to be fleeced by unscrupulous dealers than at any point in collecting history. Each of them holds a supercomputer beyond comprehension a generation ago. Yes, they take a lot of time when they're viewing a showcase, because they're more analytical in everything they do. It's quite impressive. Outside of being armed with a Beckett Monthly, past generations of kids were at the mercy of dealers when their parents dropped them off at the card shop with $20. Now they know more than many of the sellers and they're sitting on legit bankrolls. There's just a whole different level of commerce going on now.
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If I was still in business today, I wouldn't want to be going up against a 15 year-old with AI at his or her beck and call, along with all the other information at their fingertips, and thinking I would come out on top in any kind of dealings. All I could rely on would be my honesty and the fact that I was instinctively good at what I did. The movie "The Pirates of Silicon Valley" captures so well an earlier generation of teenagers named Bill Gates and Steve Jobs taking the old pros at IBM and Xerox, respectively, to the cleaners with the knowledge they had picked up at the Palo Alto computer club and other places. In the immortal words of Kurt Vonnegut: "And so it goes..."