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« on: January 09, 2010, 11:38:19 PM »

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« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2010, 03:24:58 AM »

A thing is only worth what you can get somebody to pay for it.

I'm an avid comic book reader, and I buy new issues every week. Ideally, that would mean I have several rare and desired back issues in my collection. But until I can get somebody to pay the list price for them (good luck with eBay), they are next to worthless.

Philip K. Dick has an interesting take on this in his book "The Man in the High Castle." Some items have a sense of "historicity," which must be related to "truthiness."

Back to comics, this scene from Grant Morrison's "Doom Patrol" sums it up rather well:

"How much is the dollar in your pocket worth today? I'll bet that's a question you've all been asking yourselves. But what exactly is a dollar bill? A promissory note, a scrap of colored paper with no intrinsic value of its own. That's all. However, this piece of paper can be exchanged for goods to the value of one dollar, agreed? Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! This bill has been signed by Andy Warhol, making it a pop art original! What if I tell you that, as a Warhol original this piece of paper can now be taken to an art gallery and exchanged there for another piece of paper--a check this time--which can then be exchanged for several thousand pieces of paper like the first one? Excited? But take a closer look: This signature is a crude forgery. I can almost hear your heart sinking as the stars in your eyes go out! But wait! What if I tell you that Warhol's signature was forged by none other than Pablo Picasso? Just how much do you think this piece of paper is worth now? Any ideas?"
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