You're totally right. But isn't that with everything in life? That Messi shirt that we pay €150 for even though it's just an Argentina shirt from Adidas with his name printed on it? Sure they're great quality, but not €150 great quality, more like half of that. And if you have a game-worn shirt that he himself actually wore, then it's a collectors item worth much more. Regardless of the fact he probably wore over a thousand shirts in his career. Same with cars, some are collectors items like the Ferrari F40, and rarity cranks up the prices, but even lower cost cars can have a certain added value when they're for example new and not available on every corner yet. In the end what you describe is generally how markets, currencies and values work. The more people want something, the higher the price you can ask for it. That's as old as currency itself, heck even before that during trading when one farmer traded a cow for grain, of course they discussed how much grain would represent that one cow that could give mik for years and then become meat for a whole community. Surely that wasn't one bag of grain. So in a sense, that's all that's happening here. We as people/consumers decide if we buy into it or not. Because in that same example if nobody wanted grain, then grain would be worthless in trading value, but the mere fact that people wanted it made it valuable. And apart from the fact we're talking food vs entertainment objects here, it's the exact same value proposition. And our whole economy is built on capitalism and consumerism, you could argue that one of the only countries left that isn't built on that is North Korea. Apart from food, clothing, housing and traveling, all else is a luxury in essence and even the choices we make inside the required categories are often more luxurious than needed, which has also been created by companies that arbitrary prices for products we tend to want more.