The past has value. The current often undervalues the past.
One change during the last fifty years is that youth is worshipped and age is scorned. This is true for people – but also for things.
Thankfully, this is reversing a bit. We saw the movie The Intern over the weekend. Robert De Niro plays a retired executive who joins a young CEO, played by Anne Hathaway. By the end of the movie, she comes to appreciate all that he can offer her startup company. (Yes, the transformation is a bit unbelievable, but this is a movie.)
In much the same way, charity shops sell a boatload of cast-off items that once held value. The audio receiver pictured here was once state-of-the-art. You can buy one like it for a song – if you visit the Goodwill store near you often enough.
Sometimes it takes a person from a past era to shine value on the items from that era to someone of a younger era. It’s a form of translation.
Maybe a translation bureau will open up. (Venture capitalists apply here. I’ll sign on to represent the 70s.)
