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Opinion: Millennials Would Be Able to Afford Homes If They Didn’t Let Older Kids Trick Them Into Giving Up Their Most Valuable Pokémon Cards (hard-drive.net)

submitted 3 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 77 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I had a 1999 Pokémon Base Set Shadowless 1st Edition Holo Charizard and I left it out on the table at lunch one day and it was stolen by Andrew Carnegie who used the funds to become a railroad tycoon.

Fuckin' capitalism man.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

Andrew Carnegie’s cat: “Meowth! That’s right!”

[–] peto@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

Sounds more like a Yu-Gi-Oh thing...

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 7 points 3 months ago

I hate when that happens.

[–] Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 months ago

Every single time