• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      Considering it’s in the public domain and a paperback, I’m guessing it’s not an expensive book and I’m sure there are plenty of wrestling autograph collectors so, despite Hulk Hogan being a giant piece of shit, it probably gained a massive amount of value.

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        Hulk Hogan autographed photos and t shirts are $15 -$50 on ebay. Wrestling collectors would probably rather have something wrestling related rather than a book. So not much value.

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          Well, seeing a used book you’d get maybe $4-$6, so…slight increase?

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        Sure, but just because someone will pay $1,000 for Taylor Swift’s shit doesn’t mean it’s valuable.

        This is a simplistic view of value, and basically provides no useful information about anything. There are a lot of people you can trick into paying more for an item than it’s worth, but that doesn’t increase the value of that item.

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                I would say based on consensus. That’s how we determine it in real life (stocks, real estate, market values). If there’s one person in the world who would pay $1,000 for Swift’s shit, then that person just doesn’t know the value of it, because most people wouldn’t pay anything for it. I’d imagine most people would pay not to have it.

                If I trick you into paying money for something by telling you it’s super valuable, I’m ripping you off, I’m not increasing the value of the item.

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                  The consensus of who? Everyone? Because how does society determine the value of, for example, an MRI machine when most people have no idea what it could be worth?

                  The whole concept of the game show The Price is Right is that most people don’t know how much anything costs.

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                    The consensus of the market. Prospective buyers. People can still buy things that are overvalued, but when the market is exerting pressure on you to lower its price, you know it’s overvalued.

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          Depends on your metric of value. If someone will pay $1,000 for it, it’s worth at least that much to them.

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            If I walk into a store and pay them $1,000 for a Snickers bar, I’m not a savvy investor, and that Snickers bar isn’t worth $1,000.

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        Well you could try and sell it to a Republican, but he might get mad if he actually could read out. Something something made the Greeks gay blah blah Achilles “best friend” yada yada

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      Depends on whether the Hulkster is claiming to have written it or not, brother

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        He did write it, after a bout of inspiration brought on by the first time he power-slammed Andre the Giant. Which just so happened to be in front of a sold out crowd at the Roman Colloseum in 600 CE, because he also invented time travel.