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Re:Art technicians: The industry’s dirty secret, or all part... by jdietrich on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:51AM (#17566222)
In a capitalist system, the economic value of anything is whatever the market is willing to bear. That economic value is largely uncorrelated with any particular assessment of intrinsic value.

Like many businesses, the art business is primarily driven by marketing. The act of painting is largely orthogonal to the act of persuading an oligarch that your painting is valuable.

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Re:Art technicians: The industry’s dirty secret, or all part... by knuththetruth on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:42AM (#17567346)
>The act of painting is largely orthogonal to the act of persuading an oligarch that your painting is valuable.

Which is more an indictment of the Capitalist system than anything else.

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Re:Art technicians: The industry’s dirty secret, or all part... by gukov on Thursday July 19, 2018 @04:48PM (#17570130)
Is there a better way of assigning/determining value? Make everything equal? Randomly pick one? The first one to market wins (essentially what we have right now)?
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Re:Art technicians: The industry’s dirty secret, or all part... by throwaway37585 on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @11:24AM (#17609979)
How is that an "indictment" of "the capitalist system"?
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