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Why are class shaming slurs like "stay poor" and "brokie" considered acceptable while body shaming slurs aren't?

"Stay poor" and "brokie" are used to ragebait people into overpaying for things just as "fatass" and "pig" are used to make people insecure about their weight. How come the former is socially acceptable while the latter isn't? Both weight/fitness and income/status are things that are often considered "personal choices". And yet, we've decided as a society that it's not ok to bully people for not having six pack abs, yet it's ok to bully people for not being millionaires? Either neither should be acceptable or both should be.

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u/LeppaPig — 16 hours ago
▲ 15 r/pkmntcgcollections

For all the noobs who constantly parrot the "Pokémon cards have been beating the S&P by 3000% for 20 years" lie, here's a chart that shows you're wrong:

They have been beating the S&P since 2016, and back then they weren't beating the S&P by enough to justify things like shipping costs and (at the time when the buyer pool was the size of a very popular hobby rather than a mainstream global asset market) liquidity problems. It's been 6 years, not 20. 10 if you're not subtracting shipping costs and accounting for the time it would take to sell pre-2020.

u/LeppaPig — 1 day ago
▲ 29 r/pkmntcgcollections

Has this become the face of the scene?

47000 PSA10 graded copies, $3000, and most people still see it as undervalued. Represents both the $7-15 in print packs printed in the billions, and 10k+ PSA10 pop cards selling for thousands of dollars.

Aside from the lack of true scarcity and the pricetag, the card itself also represents the scene very well. It's based on a Van Gogh painting. Cards are constantly compared to fine arts. Fine arts are seen as hard assets for rich people, a "hobby" that is in reality just a business for some and a money laundering or tax avoidance scheme for others.

Van Gogh Pikachu isn't just the most valuable Pokémon card by market cap. Van Gogh Pikachu IS the current Pokémon card scene.

u/LeppaPig — 6 days ago
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The state of the Pokémon card scene genuinely makes me feel depressed at this point. And I've been going into a BAD spiral that's been getting worse and worse because of it.

It just isn't fun anymore. It all feels so shallow and profit driven, to the point where hearing people call it a "hobby" genuinely sickens me. It's a get rich quick scheme, filled with lazy, braindead, financially illiterate, skill-less apes looking for an easy way out of the rat race at this point. Parroting the same recycled WSJ headlines thinking they're financial geniuses. It's not even the prices on modern sealed that disgusts me the most, but the general vibe of the scene at this point.

I know I sound selfish; people are making generational wealth and changing their lives for the better, yet I'm focused on cardboard and vibes. But I don't care.

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u/LeppaPig — 8 days ago