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That is one perspective but I think people actually want digital scarcity. The rare pokemon card that someone owns makes them happy because it's rare, otherwise they could have just bought a high quality print of it and stuck it on the wall of their room.

I think scarcity is obviously terrible for things like food and housing but for entertainment like above I don't think it is.

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The pokémon card is only valuable in the context of the pokémon game. Like the above comment said, a magic player doesn’t care about your pokémon card, so this isn’t a shareable asset.

On the other hand, if you have a rare pokémon card and another player sees it in game, that’s a cool moment, blockchain or not.

> That is one perspective but I think people actually want digital scarcity.

In the same way that a heroin addict wants heroin.

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