To be fair, these are novelty promotional collectors items, not really meant to be trashed.
It’s different from all the plastic packaging you find on every item in the supermarket, when they ban the one final plastic bag people use to carry all their other plastic bags.
That depends on what you mean by “worth”.
Paintings and sculptures aren’t really “worth anything” in pretty much the same way.
What’s a movie “worth” for that matter?
Art itself could be considered the idea. The individual physical creation would be merely an expression of that idea. Does mass production dilute that idea or it’s “worth”?
And I think that’s our primary point of disagreement. I don’t care how scarce something is.
In fact not quite 30min ago, I flushed something unique down the toilet because it was worthless to me. While the toilet I flush it with, is worth quite a lot to me, even though it’s very common and and found everywhere in my country. In fact if it was scarce, even unique, it might be entirely worthless.
To be fair, these are novelty promotional collectors items, not really meant to be trashed.
It’s different from all the plastic packaging you find on every item in the supermarket, when they ban the one final plastic bag people use to carry all their other plastic bags.
Anything that is made as a “collectors” item is just landfill fodder. It’s junk that isn’t worth anything. Just look at Funko Pops.
That depends on what you mean by “worth”.
Paintings and sculptures aren’t really “worth anything” in pretty much the same way.
What’s a movie “worth” for that matter?
Paintings and sculptures are individual artistic creations. You might be able to say such things about mass produced replicas, but not art itself.
Art itself could be considered the idea. The individual physical creation would be merely an expression of that idea. Does mass production dilute that idea or it’s “worth”?
It disseminates the idea and dilutes the worth, because worth is tied to scarcity.
And I think that’s our primary point of disagreement. I don’t care how scarce something is.
In fact not quite 30min ago, I flushed something unique down the toilet because it was worthless to me. While the toilet I flush it with, is worth quite a lot to me, even though it’s very common and and found everywhere in my country. In fact if it was scarce, even unique, it might be entirely worthless.
You can disagree all you want but value is absolutely and always associated with (at least perceived) scarcity.
Only sometimes. Not always. The value of many things comes with commonality. Social media for example would be worthless for only one person.
I think this is a matter of terminology.
You’re talking monetary value/worth only. They’re talking about value and worth in a broader sense.
Just let people be happy and collect their little things. Why are you people so boring
They’re not boring, they’re in a competition to see who can be the most self-righteous on the internet.
People can do whatever they want with their own money. It doesn’t change the fact.