[PolygonSheep]

I remember being in grade school while this was happening and a girl was explaining to me how it worked, that such-and-such Beanie Baby was being "retired" and only a few thousand of each one was made. I just didn't get it. Why wouldn't they make more? I mean it's not like we're going to run out of polyester and plastic pellets anytime soon. Not to mention the company itself doesn't benefit if they appreciate on the used market. Why would they leave all that money on the table by deliberately making less than people wanted?

There were also rumors going around that the whole thing - production of all Beanie Babies - was going to end in the year 2000 which actually turned out to be very briefly true before it wasn't anymore.

As an adult I was smart enough to miss cryptocurrency 10 years ago because I thought it sounded like Flooz.com or Beenz. Magic internet money you can earn by solving sudokus? Who the hell wants that? I then missed NFTs (won't they just right click?) and now I'm too scared to get in for fear I will end up as the bag holder.

I'm probably going to end up learning the wrong lesson from this and throw fifty bucks into every crazy-sounding scheme I come across from now on in hopes one of them will hit it big. But that's not so different from venture capital. Just on a smaller scale.