Antiquities and heirlooms can be a good stable investment, the same reason people trade art or watches or guns or cars. Some of these are fun to use without reducing value.

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aleph_minus_one 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Antiquities and heirlooms can be a good stable investment, the same reason people trade art or watches or guns or cars.

It is only an investment if it (likely) gains yield. Otherwise it is just a means of preservation of value.

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kev009 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Most of these things have large categories that are inherently disinflationary. You can't make a new authentic vintage Ferrari. Whether they are fungible is the main problem and case by case. But you generally don't do it to build wealth, it's an expression of it that happens to have yields if taken seriously.

	▲	detourdog 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The mystery of how a computer works is what drove me. I was interested in the mass produced microprocessor based systems. Once I found per integrated circuit system it became a combination of logic and hand crafted boards. This is is the area I focused on. I'm now at point where I would rather shed objects than collect them. I will probably hold on to the rarest handmade objects. The mass produced from the late 70's to the early 2000's I would like to get rid of.

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TheOtherHobbes 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A lot of people had a strong nostalgic attachment to DEC PDPs because they were their first experience of hands-on computing.

So SV always had a community of very wealthy nerds who could afford a used PDP-10 and its insane running and maintenance costs.

But... the community was always very small.

And today, the number of people with that kind of money and a similar nostalgic attachment to increasingly remote history is even smaller.

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Veai 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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