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The Pokemon Card Gold Rush Is Causing a Labor Crisis

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VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

An ‘avalanche of cardboard’ is completely overwhelming card grading companies as collectors try to cash in on Pokemon’s resurgent popularity.

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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.7

It's a unit system.

0:13.1

I know this.

0:15.1

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.3

It tells her everything.

0:19.1

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.8

Eagle one.

0:22.6

The package is being delivered.

0:25.2

Hey, everyone.

0:26.1

This is Motherboard Editor-in-Chief Jason Kebler.

0:28.2

I'm filling in for Ben this week.

0:30.1

This week, I'm joined by Motherboard Contributing Editor Matthew Galt to talk about the

0:34.8

resurgent interest in Pokemon cards, magic cards, sports

0:38.8

cards, and what it is doing to the labor markets associated with high-end card grading.

0:45.8

This is something that I myself dove into over the pandemic because like so many other people,

0:51.8

I found my old Pokemon cards in my closet and realized that they're

0:56.5

suddenly worth a lot of money. I've been kind of following what's been happening here and we have

1:01.6

basically people fighting each other at Target stores over Pokemon cards. We have a labor crisis

1:07.7

at three of the major companies that do card grading. And we also have some parallels

1:12.7

to cryptocurrency. So please stick around. And here's my interview with Matt.

1:22.5

Hey, everyone. This is motherboard editor-in-chief Jason Kebler. I'm filling in for Ben this week and for Lorenzo. We have a series of non-COVID-related illnesses. So I'm going to be with you this week. And I have Matthew Galt, who's a contributing editor at Motherboard. Matt, what's up? Hey, how are you doing? I'm good. We're here to talk about

1:45.4

Pokemon. Pokemon. Yeah. Really? The card game or the video game? The card game? You know we're

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