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somebody bought the painting last night
for 142 million dollars
let's do well on that
I'll continue with the story in a second but let that marinade
yet this pisses me off the story pisses me off
I get it on the capitalist Ariel make whatever you want work as hard as you
can. eccentric center
but is there no
well line where we say
you're a *** you're a ***
let me give me more information its it's an irish-born
British painter whatever that means has a lot of different things there
named Francis bacon and it's his
three studies love Lucian Freud
and this actually I don't know that right son or grandson or whatever it is
it is the painting of
I him sitting there earned
I don't know doing something with this fort I ice on a painting
it's not that nice it's not that nice
and if you are over you don't understand bought my good chap
I don't need to understand art to know that that is a 142 million dollars
completely wasted so this is
a record for the most expensive painting sale
ever but what I want to discuss his number one
we again we know it's insane so we need to do well any further on that
not to mention people are dying and starving with no health care and the
record levels of income inequality and how can somebody be such a heartless
***
to waste their money on this but Business Insider which is where I read
about this
which is actually awesome publication they do a great job but the writer of
this article is a guy by the name a robbed while
he defended this he said
but the mechanics on the art would suggest
that the amount is justified or justifiable
he says quote first as a trip th
the buyer is actually getting three paintings for the price of one
all wow well in that case a boy do I stand corrected
it was three paintings were 142 million geez I was a *** for thinking that's a
waste of money
eyes he's getting three paydays when obviously 142 million
is right in the price range that make sense he continues quote
plus for a decade after their initial 1970 exhibition
the works were displayed separately I don't even know that means
why would that make it more valuable so the foregoing paintings were held
separately
and then you bring them together and all the sudden the price skyrockets
by eighty million dollars or whatever it is
is really help fickle people are he's not done yet quote
scale can also affect price each of the canvases
in freud sure the name the painting are six feet tall
and the brightness of the painting can also drive up its value
and the top half of the painting glows with
our engineer yellow oh yeah
good as the new just argued the painting is where the 142 million dollars
because its colorful I have a two year old nephew
they can give you a i mean colorful crayon
drawing will you give me $142 million if I give you that
elsewhere with my nephew *** will be conjured
hamper that happen that $71 million
door asking bet that
roughly $70 million will call it that but this is i mean this is like
this is so sad such a bad argument and then arm
there's final thing you're there there's a name for this it's called the snob
affect
and it spits you set up this allusion love
market value been through the roof on something and then
any it's with a shitload of money fall for it hook line and sinker they think
the Loris too much and it's a real
thing we're talking about and it's like you're with wine tasting for example lot
of people are
but you know wine experts so to speak
and %uh they say well this wasn't area and this was a very up
meanwhile when you actually do taste tests you know which wine
has one consistently
the cheapest whines when
yeah here's my response to this segment
tax the rich just a little bit more
now I'm or just a little bit more I think they can afford it