387827 No.3781
It amazes me that we enable elites to become so rich when they are so wasteful and tasteless. This painting sold to a Chinese bilionaire for 170 million USD.
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387827 No.3782
And here is the same billionaire victoriously sipping tea from an rare ancient chinese tea cup he bought for 30 million in an auction. Purchased just for his vanity! Tasteless people like him (usually Chinese) are destroying art. These brutes never should have been allowed to become so rich in the first place without giving back. My impoverished geography teachers have had comparably better tastes than this friend to the mafia. I can't stand how we glorify the wasteful and culturally destructive lifestyles of the rich.
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387827 No.3783
>>3781
>>3782
>the chineese are to blame
m8, avant garde shit up the art world decades before china came to be any kind of power. but you are correct in blaming this on the rich, just not on the correct ones.
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387827 No.3788
rich people often buy expensive paintings and automobiles not because they really want to drive them or look at them but to keep there wealth in physical form while also being inflation-proof.
learn2invest
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387827 No.3789
>>3788
That assumes sunflowers will stop be worth as much when you try to resell it. Art is faddish. The most expensive painting won't be as desirable later when tastes change.
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387827 No.3790
>>3789
Meant to write "Still," not stop.
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387827 No.3814
>>3781
Taste is subjective, but OP is the Czar of Taste.
>certain people must like certain things in the certain ways I like.
you're an edgy snob
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387827 No.3819
>>3789
The same can be said of any asset you buy to hold wealth, they're doing it to diversify and sometimes launder money.
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387827 No.3940
this is just money laundering, easy way to make 30 million dollars dissapear.
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387827 No.3945
>>3781
>It amazes me that we enable elites to become so rich when they are so wasteful and tasteless.
>>>/leftypol/
>>3782
>I can't stand how we glorify the wasteful and culturally destructive lifestyles of the rich.
Neither do I, but that does not mean they don't have a right to live their shitty lifestyle. It just means I'll call them an fag over it.
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387827 No.3952
>how dare somebody have more money than me!?
>and to add insult to injury, they buy things they want with that money?
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387827 No.3963
>>3952
Yeah just the argument to sour grapes. He was justified in masturbating to his dough and society shouldn't try to claw back 100 million dollars that could have been put towards science or happiness.
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387827 No.3974
>>3963
>society shouldn't try to claw back 100 million dollars
>implying "society" ever had this money to begin with
>implying "society" is even a distinct entity
>that could have been put towards science or happiness.
>implying this money went nowhere
>implying the rich guy who now has that money won't spend anything on charity or science
>implying whenever the government had full control of all resources, it didn't spend all of it on pyramids and atomic bombs
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387827 No.3976
>>3974
Of course the money won't ever go to science because he already spent it on the ugliest nude ever. This could have been prevented if people like you wouldn't automatically apologize for wasteful narcisists. The average voter would have allocated this money better.
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387827 No.4041
>>3974
>The average voter would have allocated this money better.
He would've allocated the 100 million dollars better (in the sense that the decision benefits a greater number of people), alright. What about the 200 million dollars that this rich fucker put into consumer products, infrastructure and research? Should we hold a plebiscite whenever a rich cunt wants to buy anything, to prevent him from buying shitty paintings? If so, with what right do we allow your sorry ass to buy vidya and mangos instead of putting your money into cancer medication trials?
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387827 No.4042
>>3976
>>4041
Accidentally the wrong post.
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387827 No.4140
>>3781
>picasso fan this bootyblasted
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530e2b No.5393
It's not even about taste.
The painting was bought because it makes the billionaire more powerful. They don't give a shit what it looks like. The stuff they buy for their own consumption is bought without crowing to the world about it. You complaining about it reveals you to be a pleb because what he's really thinking doesn't even occur to you as a possibility and a poor pleb because you're envious.
>>3782
>Purchased just for his vanity!
Being resentful always helps...the rich. Thanks pleb, for falling into the trap. God, I can only imagine the shit taste you have, I bet it's even worse than the supposed taste you're so butthurt about.
>>3976
>The average voter would have allocated this money better.
*snrk*
You would have blown it on hookers, cocaine, and pretending to make Africa less poor. Folk like you win the lottery from time to time, so we've seen this happen over and over.
African economists - you know, the ones from Africa - keep begging the West to quit it with the foreign 'aid.' When Somalia lost its government and they couldn't organize 'aid' for the place anymore, it immediately started growing like gangbusters.
Useful idiots like you are first up against the wall come the revolution.
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