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
‘friend of the channel Carl has been predicting this for a while’
reminds me of a video from a few months ago where this guy was explaining how hard getting cards is nowadays, lineups of mostly scalpers an hour before the store opens