Games with Inventory drops

With a game like banana right now, a lot of .... not so very smart people buy them for the same reason they buy nft's, crypto, precious metals like gold, or invest in the stock market. FOMO basically. For a dollar you can buy like 33 bananas at 3 cents, and if you really believe they will go to a higher price(note: I don't believe they will ever go above 3 cents myself), then it's not that big of a loss if you can afford a dollar. Some things like gold do have some meaning behind their value, but for instance, diamonds never will, especially nowadays since they can be lab grown. At the same time, there was a time when aluminum was worth more than gold. People just want to hype something. Like a ferrari you can't drive over the speed limit. Is it useless, yes. Is it actually useless? Yes. Do you ever wonder why they don't make a toyota corolla that looks like a bugatti? You're still going to drive it at the same speeds whether you like it or not.

I think part of the problem with this is some people have too much money. This will differ based on location but as an example while some struggle to make minimum wage and just scrape by on lets say at $20k a year, there's someone out there who makes $75k, then there's someone who makes $150k, then there's some bastard who makes $300k maybe even more. What would you spend $300k on? It gets to a point where you can afford to waste $1000 or $10000 or $100000 on nothing and this is why these games, nft's, crypto, youtubers who sell you courses or who knows what garbage, trash from temu or sheen or whatever, exist. These people have to waste their money on something, instead it could go to a good cause, in 99% of the cases the mentality of these people is "I worked hard for it someone else should work hard", but the reality is everyone had a job that paid $300k a year we'd all be homeless and that money would mean nothing. Many have to suffer so some feel good, democracy and communism both work on this concept.

There's also a lot of fraud that happens with this. Someone steals a credit card, they make some fake transactions steal some money by paying for some digital stuff that they can resell or something, and then to maybe try to obfuscate those purchases they make thousands of buys like this until the card is closed down. Still if your item is in the que when the buy happens, you get paid for it, and I'm pretty sure steam just refunds the card to the bank, so steam takes the loss. This is why they added time restrictions when adding a new card, and a minimum spend and wait time before the market becomes available. Not sure how so many credit cards still get stolen but it happens.

As for other items, looking at Aesthetic Clicker I see they have gifs of copyrighted material, and other things some might find funny, cool, etc. to own. Some you can display in your profile, and some get removed from steam, some get forgotten etc. So you could own some cool gifs or cool looking at items, which is what I do, you can check my inventory if you want. I didn't buy mine from the market nor did I farm them, but I traded for them at much less than market price. One issue with so many items being traded I couldn't even see my history for like 3 months, it was just crashing, and steam support could not figure it out, they had no idea what was going on. My guess is just attempting to load the page with 8000 items traded at a time just crashed it because it failed to load in time. I could still trade and after I've done a bunch of small 1 item trades, it fixed itself, but it took like another 30 - 40 trades and 3 months. Bet you steam support still doesn't know what causes the problem.