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Originally Posted by raulus
3) we don’t become the stamp world
The stamp parallels, while a bit frightening, have always seemed like a very unlikely outcome to me. But not something that can be completely ignored.
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That possibility has also crossed my mind. It seems that interest in stamp collecting evaporated as baby boomers found other alternatives that had more meaning to them, e.g. bubble gum cards, comics, the toys they remembered from their formative years, even gold & silver coins since many remembered having silver coins in their pockets once upon a time.
I'm therefore interested in why you think such a quantum change in collecting interests is unlikely. From all reports, things have changed in the schoolyard and kids aren't collecting the same ways as were kids fifty+ years ago. Not only do they not collect the same kind of cards, their mindset behind collecting is now very different.
