Sports Card Addiction Is Slowly Coming Out of the Shadows Article

[packs]

Originally Posted by raulus

Allow me to suggest that if your mere browsing is interfering with your ability to enjoy and be present for every other aspect of your life, then it's probably gone too far.

No disrespect but I think you're talking about having a phone at all and not baseball cards.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by packs

No disrespect but I think you're talking about having a phone at all and not baseball cards.

You're definitely right that smartphones are a big part of the problem.

[darwinbulldog]

Free markets are going to produce addictive products. That is, unfortunately, a reliable path to profits, and the addictiveness of the products on offer "improves" more with each successive year than the human brain's ability to resist them improves with each successive millennium. Baseball cards are one such product for a very small segment of the population, but there are thousands of others that have the same effect on the dopamine channels of much larger numbers of people.

[Orioles1954]

I remember getting a consignment from the family of a man who had accumulated over a million cards in his house. After his death, his children loaded up a couple of U-Hauls and brought his collection our way. One of them told me, "he didn't give a damn about his kids or family...he put every part of his life into these cards. I'm glad they're gone." Unfortunately, I have seen this happen multiple times.