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Forceful_Dragon posted...

So physical things are cool because they are unique and rare.

But digital things can also be made to be unique and rare, and that's 'absolutely horrifying'?

Am I describing it wrong? Participation is not mandatory. It's an option for people who want that experience.

where in the world did I say the first sentence

Scarcity is a flaw of physical items, that flaw inherent to being physically manufactured is just what gives it monetary value (not to be confused with, actually being a cool thing) because there is no other option, if you want [thing] you have literally no other choice: there's a certainly supply and demand determines its price. I would be absolutely *thrilled* if there was an infinite supply of physical items so I could actually find things I'd love to get but that's not how reality works. Like fuck imagine a world that wasn't endlessly screwed over by scalpers? That's magical.

Artificially enforcing a limited supply of an infinite digital item just to create a specular market off of is yes, fucking horrifying. You're already free from that shit, why would you try to emulate the flaws of physical?

*edit* and just to note, the flaw of physical scarcity is why I fucking love 3D printing technology because conceptually it's the very reverse: the capability to reproduce physical items so that they're no longer constrained by a limited supply (beyond printing material)