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kleinbl00  ·  2305 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fine art to topple fine wine in 2017 luxury investment

It's a stupid and offensive video, dude. It takes the economic complexities of a system with no intrinsic value and reduces it to evil and malfeasance. You didn't learn anything from that, you had your insecurities stroked and your smug sense of self-satisfaction reinforced.

I watched 30 seconds of it and it made me mad. then I read your response, watched the whole thing to see what I missed, and got madder. The only argument made in the film is that the art market exists to fuck you, the little guy, over. And that's because you want to be mad about it because someone told you to be mad about it, just like the only modern work of art you could think of was Piss Christ.

A similar summary of Shawshank Redemption would explain that Andy Dufresne let himself be taken to jail because he liked digging tunnels.