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Originally Posted by perezfan
To me, the Autograph Book itself has great charm and intrinsic value, but realize I'm in the minority in this day and age of the almighty dollar.
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Kiss me I'm a liberal, but it's pretty undeniable that the dollar, and other currencies--Adam Smith's "invisible hand"--have worked better than any other system to allocate the production and distribution of resources for maximum wealth of the society at large. How many times have you taken less than something was worth to achieve a goal other than getting the best return on your investment? If this book was yours, and you knew you would get half by keeping it together than from breaking it up, would you still do it? And anyway, I still postulate that by allowing multiple collectors to create great pieces out of it, you would still be doing a social goal, what would you say to that? I'm just not getting the warm and fuzzies from the idea of this book sitting on a shelf somewhere; to me, once it leaves the original owner's hands, it's pretty much just a random collection of nice autographs that need to go where the market wants them to.