The funny thing about it is that you can very much attach any value you want to anything, it’s just a matter of how much reach your message has and how many people believe it. NFTs ended up crashing because eventually people realize they were worthless, but not before the snake oil salesmen racked in billions from them.
If an influencer with millions of followers sold a bunch of autumn leaves, someone would buy them.
The funny thing about it is that you can very much attach any value you want to anything, it’s just a matter of how much reach your message has and how many people believe it. NFTs ended up crashing because eventually people realize they were worthless, but not before the snake oil salesmen racked in billions from them.
If an influencer with millions of followers sold a bunch of autumn leaves, someone would buy them.
This is a plot point in one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide books. They decide to burn down the forest to increase the value of leaves already collected.
Didn’t that one broad sell her bath water or something? A fool and their money are soon parted.
At that point you are dealing with fetishes, which is an entirely different ball of wax.
Here we have them going for about 50¢ a leaf, which ain’t bad. I’d like to go ahead and sell my yard… we have some really nice leaves folks
Like Tulips, long ago one could buy a kingdom with tulips.