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I find it fascinating that something so inherently worthless like stamps can sell for such large sums. Old fashioned NFT's?

These stamps however are very cool. And the prices are actually reasonable.

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As kids we collected pokemon cards. Even less inherent value and we didn't even really play the game well or certainly didn't know the proper rules.

Stamps are collectibles from all over the world, that keep/kept getting made with varied art, history, etc on it often having interesting factoids to know about em, etc And with some effort if you were writing letters and postcards anyway you got them for free (with some stamp lines on em from time to time)

>worthless like stamps

Stamps used to be almost like money. I have payed for stuff with stamps.

> inherently worthless

There are many things that different people places different value on. The things I don’t place value on aren’t inherently worthless.

In the end, it's all supply and demand - even gold is no exception.

Sure stamps are collectible, and have some value, but at the end of the day it should be within reason. At the end of the day stamps are simply brightly coloured bits of paper, and their price should reflect that. Some of the more expensive stamps go for hundreds of thousands of dollars, even millions, which goes so far beyond what is reasonable that the only logical explanation is that the buyers are paying purely for status. Which makes them no different from NFT's.

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