I'll admit that I gave up on this video around 11 minutes in
When I couldn't ignore for any longer how much the narrator sounds like Terence/Philip from South Park.
But what's the big scandal here? I mean, I get that these 'nasty rich people' are manipulating the market in order to make money, but so fucking what? Market manipulation has been going on for as long as there have been markets to manipulate.
Last time I checked, vintage computer games weren't an essential item, so this behaviour doesn't fall under price gouging. As far as I can tell, the only people getting 'hurt' in this are the collectors that want to purchase these games at a more realistic price point. And if that's the case, why don't they just wait a few months until the bubble bursts?
Like I said, I only got a few minutes in, but is that essentially the basis for the whole scandal? Some people teamed together to artificially inflate the perceived value of old computer games?
(, Fri 27 Aug 2021, 19:00, Reply)
