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[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Your baseball card became worth more because more of them got lost or destroyed over time so it got more rare.

Assumption. That can happen because the athlete has a very good season, or even becomes famous/infamous for an unrelated reason.

In other words, you're assuming it's because supply went down, but it can also be that demand went up. Or a combination.

But that's beside the point, which is that its value changing has zero impact on what's in others' wallets. Because it's a price tag. Not an amount of actual money.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago

But, once the valuation is realized.... then it has done all the things I said. So yes, if you only ever buy stocks and never sell them, you have never gained money that came from somewhere else... but you also haven't become rich then.