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LIR: baseball cards/art. The cards are mass produced; "high" art is not and supposedly has meaning and takes more talent (again supposedly). It's ...

Posted by zork Jan 14 '21, 07:54

not like there were dozens/hundreds/thousands of a particular Rembrandt piece made (sketches and such aside) and you happen to have one of the few remaining ... and it's in decent condition.

Those million dollar pieces are unique and normally done with the highest levels of talent.

I still think it's stupid how much money they command but much easier for me to understand.

Besides, baseball sucks.

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They are fewer high graded Mantle cards in the world than Rembrandts. - spamlet Jan 14, 08:31
It definitely gets into a small value judgement but baseball cards are rarely "art" in and of themselves - Reagen Jan 14, 08:00 1
- But ... holograms! - zork Jan 14, 08:01
Art collecting at that level has stopped being about the art and it's now about bragging and conspicuous consumption. Ditto multi-million dollar mass - TWuG Jan 14, 07:58 7
- Bragging has always been a big part of it, even in the commission of the pieces in the first place. -- nm - zork Jan 14, 08:02 4
  - If I ever end up with $5m that I *don't know what to spend on*, you have permission to pummel me if I spend it on conspicuous consumption crap like - Reagen Jan 14, 08:10 3
    - Water, vision, cleft palettes, environment, animals, etc. - zork Jan 14, 08:15 2
      - Fuck, start a business even - Reagen Jan 14, 08:19 1
        
        Yep. Someone could make a living and be able to pay their rent. Risk? Collectibles, antiques, etc. don't always go up. -- nm - zork Jan 14, 08:21
- Some good old fashioned money laundering as well -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Jan 14, 07:59 1
  - Probably. Overlooked that aspect of it. -- nm - Reagen Jan 14, 08:06

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