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doingitwrong posted:When in history did they invent money that comes with a best-before date? I believe that is an entirely new innovation. Not technically money (then again, neither is this), but tulip bulbs.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/08/27/754323652/the-strange-unduly-neglected-prophet hundred years and change
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Jun 10, 2022 03:30
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Jun 10, 2022 04:35
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That's the same Funko Man, they all look like that.
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Jun 10, 2022 04:42
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that appears to be only a small portion of his collection
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Jun 10, 2022 04:47
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At least he took them out of the boxes.
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doingitwrong posted:When in history did they invent money that comes with a best-before date? I believe that is an entirely new innovation. It's not the best example, but Zimbabwe issues "special agro-cheques" during their period of hyperinflation, and those had expiry dates. Part of their accounting gimmick was that it's not cash, it's a cheque! which is why it had the date, but for all intents and purposes it was treated as cash (and later, trash).
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Ham Equity posted:Not technically money (then again, neither is this), but tulip bulbs. After the Romans left Britain, there was no currency for hundreds of years until the 750s when King Offa of Mercia introduced a silver penny. So crypto bros have invented serfs trading onions for wool.
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doingitwrong posted:When in history did they invent money that comes with a best-before date? I believe that is an entirely new innovation.
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Jun 10, 2022 12:26
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Wouldn’t that be inflation, not deflation? Did you mean depreciated?
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learnincurve posted:After the Romans left Britain, there was no currency for hundreds of years until the 750s when King Offa of Mercia introduced a silver penny. The term is seigniorage I think or is seigniorage not equivalent? There's a whole section of crypto dedicated to it
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Vox Nihili posted:New funko maniac just dropped. The part where you scroll down and see he's a moderator is just 
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Jun 10, 2022 13:27
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drk posted:that appears to be only a small portion of his collection Collections are curated. That's just a hoard.
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learnincurve posted:After the Romans left Britain, there was no currency for hundreds of years until the 750s when King Offa of Mercia introduced a silver penny. Finally, someone has moved us beyond the Settlers of Catan school of economics!
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Jun 10, 2022 15:53
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Vox Nihili posted:New funko maniac just dropped. Was this an article or something? At that level it's basically a personal museum sized collection, so he's either flush with cash or inherited a ton of money, blew it all on funkos, and now just works to afford rent on the space to store them.
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pentyne posted:Was this an article or something? Nah, it's just an idiot with a comfortable-ish income who prioritizes dumb stuff. Those things are like $12 MSRP. Let's do some napkin math: each of the "squares" made by those shelves is 3 rows of 9 funkos, for 27 per suqare. I see 8 rows of 5 squares on that shelf, so 40 quares on the shelves. 40x27x12= $12,960. Round up to $15k for the random crap on the top shelf just to be generous. That's the ballpark we're looking at for MSRP on what's in that picture. Now it might be more or less depending on if he bought rare poo poo at an inflated price or got lucky with sales, but that's the ballpark. We know he has more areas like that based on the other pics, but even assuming that's a fifth of his collection we're still in the $75k range, at the very least well under $100k. Which yes, is a poo poo ton of money, but if your priorities are hosed you can do that over a few years with a decent but not amazing income. If he's earning enough to spend 10k/yr on his dumb hoarding hobby that's less than a decade of being an idiot. You see this poo poo a LOT when you get into collector/hobbiest stuff. People of surprisingly modest means who have just gone all in on something really odd. poo poo, I'll guarantee there are goons hanging around here that if you total up their Steam libraries alone it's comfortably five figures. Even just spending $500/yr on something you enjoy will add up quickly. It's just that in this dude's case there's a physical component that hangs around and piles up.
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Jun 10, 2022 17:18
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Who amongst us can judge? I say side eyeing my small collection of £50-£150 snakes who live in their individual £500 a pop wood palaces?
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I don’t mind that guy, who is clearly displaying his collection out of the boxes for himself and others to enjoy. What I don’t understand is the people who buy every new release, scour ebay for specific limited models, attend in person drops at a con or whatever, and then refuse to ever take them out of the box and just stack them hidden in some basement, or worse, an off-site storage facility they are also paying for.
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Jun 10, 2022 17:34
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pentyne posted:Was this an article or something? Yes, he was the "funatic" of the month https://www.funko.com/blog/article/funatic-of-the-month-paul-scardino
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drk posted:Yes, he was the "funatic" of the month Cyrano4747 posted:Nah, it's just an idiot with a comfortable-ish income who prioritizes dumb stuff. Those things are like $12 MSRP. In the article he estimates to have 5500 Funkos, and that was in November 2020. Assuming $12 MSRP for every single one, that is $66,000 in Funkos. Edit: oh no https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNY_ZXWmuDA Sirotan fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jun 10, 2022 |
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Jun 10, 2022 18:01
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Anybody wanna buy my Beanie Baby's? $65000 for all of them.
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My boyfriend plays vintage MTG and it's weird to walk into his office and look at a shoebox on a shelf like "that's a down payment on a house".
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As a lifelong MTG player I can say without a shadow of a doubt that playing MTG, for any reason and at any level, is incredibly BWM and BWL.
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drk posted:Yes, he was the "funatic" of the month "A co-worker gifted me the Pop! Spider-Man/Hawkeye Civil War pack for my birthday in 2015 and I absolutely fell in love with the bobblehead Pops! (I had not heard of Funko Pops! prior to that)." Goddamn he acquired that entire dragon's hoard of plastic garbage in just 5 years. "I've always collected comic books, and once I began collecting Funko Pops!, I ended up collecting other Funko lines, such as Vinyl Idolz, Dorbz, Hikari, Bloks, Mopeez, Pint Size Heroes, Mystery Minis, etc. I also collect Poptaters (Mr. Potato Head as various pop culture characters)." Jesus Christ.
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Jun 10, 2022 20:12
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This doesn’t really seem like bad with money outside having a hobby is bad with money
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Yeh I'm kind of ok with that dude being contained within his own hobby and not out in the general population at large.
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"If we could make a pop for anything, regardless of licensing, what would you want it to be?" "Myself"
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CharlestheHammer posted:This doesn’t really seem like bad with money outside having a hobby is bad with money It's extremely BWL and frankly Bad With Collecting. As Motronic said before, collections are curated, that's just organized hording. I'd even argue about whether or not it's a hobby. Collecting CAN be a hobby, but there's generally more to it than just buying all the poo poo that a company makes. You'll find collectors who put a lot of time and effort into learning about a particular weird subset or whatever. Doing deep dives on Moroccan stamps etc. The kinds of people who can tell you about the different sorts of glue that stamps used and how WW2 affected them, etc. But this poo poo? It's just rampant consumerism cosplaying as a hobby. It's hard to articulate, but the collectors I know who I'd legitimately describe their collecting as a hobby have an aspect to it that goes beyond just gathering together as much of Thing X as they can.
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CharlestheHammer posted:This doesn’t really seem like bad with money outside having a hobby is bad with money There are plenty of hobbies that are bad with money. Most of those expensive hobbies are a billion times cooler than what this guy picked, at least. If setting the world record for most lovely plastic figurines accumulated doesn't tick the box for you I'm not sure what will.
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Ah so this isn’t bad with money this is just goons weird hang ups with funko pops part six thousand How tedious
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Post your Funko room.
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I don’t own any, I find them kind of ugly. I just do not care if you own any.
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I swear we JUST had this exact same loving derail Some hobbies are stupid, but they're still hobbies because there's no accounting for taste and there's meaning behind it (whether it's historical, personal, or what have you). Some "hobbies" are not hobbies but people spending shitloads of money on something in a misguided attempt to fill the spot where a personality was supposed to be. I was under the impression that we all agreed that funk pops were the latter, particularly when you buy them indiscriminately.
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I mean you may agree with that but i think it’s a childish rationalization personally (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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DACK FAYDEN posted:There were libertarians back in the 70s too, who wanted money that inherently deflated - lost a flat percentage of its face value every month, to induce spending rather than hoarding - but damned if I can think of the names now. Negative interest rates are a thing. Europe has had them for 8 years. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/europe-had-8-years-negative-102842331.html
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CharlestheHammer posted:Ah so this isn’t bad with money this is just goons weird hang ups with funko pops part six thousand It is absolutely bad with money and your whiny posts about it are downright pathetic.
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Vox Nihili posted:It is absolutely bad with money and your whiny posts about it are downright pathetic. My wife has bought like 3 as toys for our daughter, who enjoys playing with them. Like anything, it seems fine unless taken to extremes.
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Cyrano4747 posted:But this poo poo? It's just rampant consumerism cosplaying as a hobby. This. A hobby is spending time doing something you enjoy or brings you refreshment. The act in this case is just buying a thing. That's it, your hobby is the act of purchasing there's nothing else to it. Replace the item with something else, say 3m adhesive strips, and then this guy has spent 20k on these:  and proudly displays them like that, it's madness and an unhealthy addiction. Even collecting Legos to display is a but suspect, since there's an activity, ie building a model, but honestly it's not a sign of skill or talent to be able to follow color coded numbered instructions.
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Jerk McJerkface posted:This. A hobby is spending time doing something you enjoy or brings you refreshment. This is really stupid. Obviously when you collect adhesive strips you collect from multiple manufacturers and sizes. I mean, yes, obviously you'd have your 3Ms, but my favorite are the bituminous adhesive strips by riwega. You've also got your Gorilla mounting tape, not to mention various types of adhesive tapes for medical use. Please think next time before you post.
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Zauper posted:My wife has bought like 3 as toys for our daughter, who enjoys playing with them. It's like beanie babies. Buying five or ten or twenty for your kids or for yourself is completely mundane, but buying thousands of them and piling them to the ceilings and maintaining a giant spreadsheet of your Beanie Equity is a whole different animal. That level of unhinged consumerism/hoarding is very funny to me. If folks don't find it funny they can always post different content. 
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