Trade 51: Tokens for Comedy DVDs

A side effect of all this Bunzing is that I have turned into a dedicated scrounger of used books and DVDs. Curbside toss-aways, craigslist rejects, and Bunz shelf-clearings are the raw fuel powering my personal bunz economy. Anything I generate from the books and movies is effectively free--and there's something about this that irrationally appeals to me.

I could just as easily purchase whatever I'm 'shopping' for, but... the idea of getting something for nothing makes things infinitely more pleasurable.

In this trade, I exchanged a bunch of comedy DVDs for tokens. I know I probably could have gotten more in cash for them, but such is the transactional friction of existing in the Bunz universe.

In response to this post I gathered up a bunch of discs:

And I exchanged them for a quartet of tokens:

This brings my net token count to 15.

Salient to this transaction is the fact that I neither have a television, nor do I use tokens! So this trade entirely involves stuff I don't use, for the sheer purpose of amassing currency for use within Bunz. This is an abstraction to which many Bunz might object, on the principle that I'm trading for trading's sake.

My rationalization is that trading in itself is beneficial to the market. If I can provide a supply of something for which there is a ready Bunz demand, that enhances the viability and attractiveness of Bunz. People are more inclined to go Bunz to find stuff, if they think there is a decent chance of it being available. A busy market is a thriving market.

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