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Comment by douglaswlance

A Michael Jordan rookie card is worth tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on grade. If I print a Michael Jordan rookie card onto cardstock, it will be worth basically nothing. The reason that something is valuable to collectors is the social contract between creator and recipient.

The value in NFTs exists by that same social contract. You can't ignore that relationship when criticizing them, otherwise you're attacking a strawman. Try attacking a steelman argument for NFTs, and you may actually convince some proponents.

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