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I agree very little with your post. Knives are consumable over a period of years just like your Ferarri example. But that is not what people hoard. You hoard items you use all the time (examples toilet paper, food, paper towels, ammunition) because that is way you're built. But I call that accumulating as you will use it eventually. Buying something before someone else happens all the time with knives and that is not hoarding. You can paint your own picture anyway you like. I don't buy to prevent anyone from anything; you buy it because you want it.Knives are quite consumable, if used as intended.
So are 1959 Ferarri's....but if everyone drove them, they still would be in production and parts being made for them, too.
And anyone buying quantities of stuff, otherwise unused and useless to them, IS a hoarder.
Paint it any way you choose, justify any way you care to, whether very questionable investments strategy, or art collection, it is still hoarding to accrue quantities of otherwise useless items, and most times, very expensive items.
And those items bought, simply to PREVENT someone else from getting it, gotta hurry up and buy that thing, before somebody ELSE gets it.
There is this hurricane happening along the NC/SC coast right now. I heard on TV that all the generators have been bought up. If you already own a generator and you buy another just before this potential emergency, that's not hoarding. That is playing it safe.