Sad but true - collecting addiction

[Yoda]

Yes, he was wrong and he is paying the price, but the rabid collector, still raging inside me, can understand the logic: A few gallons of gov't gas and I can get that PSA9 Greg Maddox RC that I simply cannot live without. It's a bad place to be.

[byrone]

The sports collecting hobby, or any hobby really, can be an attraction to people with tendencies towards addiction.

I know many sports collectors who are alcoholics in recovery.

It seems the thrills of the hobby can be somewhat of a replacement or placeholder for the addiction stimulation

Sorry Baseball Cards is like Alcohol " One is not enough, but One is to many"

[Eric72]

I realize there would be no way to accurately calculate this.

There are a certainly a nonzero number of people within our hobby for whom sports cards have become an addiction. I wonder what percentage of these people are primarily addicted to the random chance element of breaking open wax. Whether one does this personally or uses a "breaker" to open the wrappers, the end result is the same.

Pay X dollars, get Y random cards. In this respect, breaking is really no different than gambling.

[rjackson44]

Never buy anything with money you dont have,always with money you have ,,my dad

[raulus]

Originally Posted by rjackson44

Never buy anything with money you dont have,always with money you have ,,my dad

SNL to the rescue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ZJKN_5M44

[sreader3]

I would like to know more about the facts.

If the alleged “crime” is limited to an Uber driver’s use of a federally funded vehicle then this prosecution seems like a gross misallocation of federal resources i.e. waste of taxpayer money compared to the violence and theft that is excused these days. At least this guy was providing a service.

[G1911]

I mean, I’d rather my tax dollars pay for this dudes gas at his side hustle than most things they spend my tax dollars on. Federal felonies and termination of his constitutional liberties seems awfully harsh.

He should have not done the Uber and just emptied his 401K and taken some loans to afford more cards.