The Nostalgia Economy: Thrifting, Grifting and Profiting Off the Past
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- This week on the Videocast we dive into the nostalgia economy and the retro collectible market! We explore the people who pay and the places that profit off the past!
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Thrift store merchandising must be an interesting job
As research, I worked for a major thrift chain for a couple of weeks and it was an eye opening experience. Seeing how the sorting and recycling process worked and how they sell you on what they want you to think it is and what it actually is was wild.
They also had a lot of security processes in place so workers couldn’t take stuff for themselves. It was interesting seeing some of the stuff that came in though.
I’ve recently had a resurgence in collecting vintage PC parts. Mainly due to how I felt during that time and the nostalgia factor for me. Collecting isn’t bad in the slightest. Neither is feeling nostalgic for better times. Especially since nowadays the world is so bad.
For awhile I collected old computers, buying all of the old 8 bit systems I wanted when I was an adolescent. But I realized in time that (a) they were absurdly expensive considering (b) a lot of them were failing -- capacitors, mainly, and then there was (c) they took up a lot of space. And I'd find myself booting one of those systems every few weeks to futz around for 15 minutes then getting bored. I can emulate all of those systems, and that gets me 98% of the way there. The other 2% of running original hardware wasn't worth the cost.
Nostalgia often involves confusing an object for who you were or what your circumstances were at a certain time in your life, and this is also through a weird gauzy soft-focus lens of the past, when maybe some of those things brought you some comfort when other things were really horrible -- like, you feel warmth toward them but the warmth you feel is confused.
I am kind of crotchety about how many of my memories are polluted by malls, dead retail chains, commercials, cheap cynical plastic stuff, diabetes-inducing cereals, low-rent, low imagination cartoons, and so on.
video game's played a big part of my life as a kid in the 80s & 90's. i did grew up playing with he-man & the transformers.. i did have a few gobots back then.
At retrogamingcons you can see mainly people aged 35-47 so with at least retro games I think we have reached a peak, there is no major transfer to the younger generation of this interest cause all of their stuff is digital.
Also let's not forget a bigger question, older generation actually had apartments and houses where they could put all the crap they bought, as the housing market in EU/US gets worse and worse we may actually see a decrease in collecting hoarding as this was something that began with the economical overflow of the boomer generation who had too much money and too much space.
Thanks for a interesting channel, keep up the good work.
Good Video J
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Is Nostophobia one of those fleeting new words, or does it have older history from literature or popular history?
If it does not, naming it that might repel potential readers.
Good video though.
Profit is not bad, it is the fee for the reseller to get the item from wherever its been buried to whomever it is supposed to be with. That costs time and gas and energy.