Skateboards and Artifacts

After seeing a conversation on Mastodon about Sony eliminating the ability to buy the actual game discs for Playstations, my wife and I had a pretty intesting conversation about the value of physical artifacts to human beings. Albums, CDs, cassettes, books, stuff you collect, etc. Buying lots of stuff can of course become compulsive consumerism and possibly even HOARDING! However, as my wife…