Re:Super Mario 64 game sells for record-breaking $1.5M at au...
by perl4ever on Monday July 12, 2021 @08:51PM
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>someone has $1.5M to throw away on something like this
Your reaction seems pretty normal and all, but your ethical viewpoint seems backwards to me.
If they spent $1.5M on something that involved the amount of labor and resources that normally buys, then they threw it away, if it wasn't for the general good. A yacht for instance.
But if they spent $1.5M on a collectible with no real use, then they have just exchanged a coupon, basically, for another coupon. They made a decision not to take useful resources away from society that they had a coupon for.
Your reaction seems pretty normal and all, but your ethical viewpoint seems backwards to me.
If they spent $1.5M on something that involved the amount of labor and resources that normally buys, then they threw it away, if it wasn't for the general good. A yacht for instance.
But if they spent $1.5M on a collectible with no real use, then they have just exchanged a coupon, basically, for another coupon. They made a decision not to take useful resources away from society that they had a coupon for.