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Cecilily discusses the financialisation of Pokemon cards as an investment vehicle.

It's one thing that makes me pause in teaching my niece how to play, I don't want her to get caught up in the abstraction of the cards as anything other than pieces of cardboard with funny pictures of animals

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[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 3 points 19 hours ago

That's just straight up addiction at that point. Or it's other scalpers paying each other.