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Beanie Babies (Entry 106.PR2105)

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Do You Remember Your First Experience With a Beany Baby?

The first time i remember seeing a collectable craze that seemed insane to me was the rise of the beany baby in early nineties. And it's hard to make people care about something that you're artificially making scarce. A bit coin is a great example of something where all that makes it valuable is city. It has no other it has nothing intrinsic to it at all. You can tell they were garbage. They were just cardboard disksyes, there's always been in capitalism an understanding that scarcity produces rarity. But it'shard to gin that up, righti?

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