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Originally Posted by Brent G.
I don't know who "we" is when it comes to judging subsequent generations who haven't done anything yet, but I'm more inclined to judge ours for our successes and failures that are actually documented.
WHAT people collect has changed dramatically in 40 years and especially recently, whether it's basketball having the most valuable cards a few decades after it was DOA, game-used inserts, women's sports, UFC and wrestling over boxing, soccer, RPGs, whatever. What they collect won't look exactly like what takes place on this site, but it's pretty safe to say values of the GOATs and the most historically significant athletes are safe. And yes, baseball is less important to them than past generations. Set collecting is also unknown to them.
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I don't know who the "they" is you are referring to, but you are projecting your own feelings onto an entire generation. There are LOTS of collectors today who collect vintage and sets and the same things we collect who are from the younger generation. Not only do I think your assertions are overgeneralizations, I find them to be flat out incorrect. You collect in a bubble that isn't aware of a whole other side of the younger collectors.
And the fact that new things to collect are different, doesn't mean they won't collect the old things too. I collect both ultra-modern, 90s, vintage, and pre-war. Plenty of people do.