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Originally Posted by G1911
Do the people bitching that other people have money to spend on cards plan to sell their collections and donate every penny to charity or, even better, give to the government? Or is it only when somebody else (not them!) has money to waste on cardboard pictures that it is a great wrong? It is always other people’s money and things they want to take to distribute as they see fit for the ‘greater good’, never their own.
This crap is almost as silly as thinking spending $12.9M on a card is silly because they picked the wrong cardboard picture.
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It's a zero sum game anyway. Person A has the card and Person B has $12 million. Person B buys the card. Now, Person A has $12 million (less taxes) and Person B has the card. Why should that be of the slightest consternation to anybody else?
So, if someone wants to complain about wealth inequality, they can take comfort (I suppose) in knowing that $12 million in privately held hands was reduced by a couple million, with that amount going to the government.
I think, for most of us, it's a matter of relativity. Would it be cooler to own this bit of cardboard with a couple pieces of cloth and 2 scribbles, or, for example, a game-worn Jackie Robinson flannel jersey, worn back in the day when players didn't go through 100 jerseys each season.