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Originally Posted by Balticfox
Well it's sure as hell different than when I was a kid. We never thought about values. We just opened the packs, dropped the wrappers where we stood, stuffed the gum in our mouths, looked to see who we got in each pack, shoved the cards into our pant pocket and then eventually flung them gaily at brick walls in winner takes all games.
I disagree. That's learned behaviour which has come about in the last 35-40 years or so.
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I disagree. Human beings are born coveteous. The desire to have more than others has been passed down from Adam. You don't have to teach a kid to want the most valuable thing. Just because you didn't care about values of baseball cards doesn't mean no one did. I promise you kids interested in card values pre-dates your life. As soon as cards were traded for value, some kid cared about that value. Like I said, it's human nature. You just didn't realize they had value.