Yes, but you won't like the answer. It's NFT-s. You need artificial scarcity in the digital domain for an economy to function so that trading and collecting makes sense.
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It's been a while since I was a kid, but I remember collecting car cards from gums. I was the happiest when I had something rare others didn't. Same thing with a local Magic the Gathering clone, we went nuts with it and when someone printed a card it was really frowned upon.