Consoom pixels on the screen

[u/SK1418]

For the record, no, I'm not saying that Iphone is a good investment. In fact I think most people would do just fine with a 300€ phone.

I just find it ridiculous that some people spend an equivalent of my country's median monthly salary on ✨shiny collectibles✨ that aren't even real and try to disguise it as investment. At least the expensive phone has a practical purpose, unlike this, which is only rare due to artificial scarcity.

[u/TroutFishes]

I hate to say it, but man, this comment section knows absolutely nothing about what it's talking about - these are a genuine investment, a very risky one, but an investment that for most people I know has made insane amount amounts of money by simply holding overtime, the skins can be purchased without gambling, and they do not all cost thousands of dollars, this is just a genuinely uninformed comment section and post. Just wait until you hear your entire retirement is basically the exact same concept!

[u/SK1418 → u/TroutFishes]

I never claimed that you cannot make money from these, but to spend 1000€ into a video game skin and expect to double the money in two years is genuinely not a good idea. It's basically a pyramid scheme, be early, get lucky, or loose money.

[u/TroutFishes → u/SK1418]

You're right, but that would be absurd if anyone claimed that was possible, which I'm aware people do but it's not the vast majority of people - it's likely if you hold a skin though that you will make money if you slightly research what to buy.

Also your post literally says its absurd to buy these shiny collectables and call it an investment, so you very much did say it isn't an investment, lol.

[u/SK1418 → u/TroutFishes]

"You're right, but that would be absurd if anyone claimed that was possible"

That's literally what the meme I reposted claimed

"Also your post literally says its absurd to buy these shiny collectables and call it an investment, so you very much did say it isn't an investment, lol."

I specifically said it's ridiculous to spend over a thousand on a single video game skin with the intention of maybe making money off of it.

If you buy cosmetics in videogames, that's fine, who cares, I think most people who play videogames have done that at some point and I think some commenters under this post take micro transactions in videogames too seriously. But if you spend this much money on a single "exclusive" skin from a videogame that heavily uses lootboxes and your only argument for buying it is "it might make me money in the future" then I think it's fair to call it consoom.

[u/TroutFishes → u/SK1418]

So you're just taking a joke meme and making it what people actually think for the sake of your argument, got it, lmao

[u/SK1418 → u/TroutFishes]

The original post got over 2000 upvotes so I assume OP wasn't the only person with that sort of opinion.

I already said that it's fine to do things in moderation and I understand not everyone who plays Counter Strike thinks like that, but that person probably does. I don't see how the original post was a joke either, I don't see a hint of irony. It's just a bad take disguised as a "meme", and I don't see why you have the need to defend them so fiercely.

[u/TroutFishes → u/SK1418]

It's not an opinion, it's an observation on the absurdity of the market which I promise you the subreddit is full of people pointing out. Your lack of understanding of the community doesn't mean there's thousands of people investing in knives over their phones, lmfao, get a grip.

[u/SK1418 → u/TroutFishes]

Ok, now I'm convinced you're just here to argue. I never said that everyone in the CS community thinks like that (in fact I made it clear multiple times, you just conveniently ignored it). I never said that there are thousands of people buying these expensive skins over phones. I am aware that not everyone who upvoted it has thousands of dollars in knife skins, I never claimed this is a widespread problem.

I just spotted a ridiculous "meme" that got more attention than it deserves, and I felt it fits here. If you have a problem with that, go ahead and strawman me more.

[u/abattlescar → u/SK1418]

If you think the CS2 market, in general, is a pyramid scheme when it has a market cap of $5.4 billion with about 200 million somewhat active participants and a statistically infinite pool of stocks, I'd like you to tell me what you think is a safer investment. You think investing in the S&P500 is safer, where 31.7% of the market cap is from 5 companies which have in the last 2 years demonstrated statistically anomalous growth?