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[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can’t really do anything useful with a billion Pokémon cards, there’s always something you can do with a billion dollars

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But you could do lots of useful things with a billion pokemon cards - either bartering them for goods and services or converting them to money first, effectively "spending" the cards on useful things.

But practicality isn't the issue when people see someone hoarding incredible amounts of something - it's the abnormality of devoting yourself to accumulating vastly more than what we interpret as anywhere near normal. We treat hobby objects that way but not money.