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Re:The $2M Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It (2018) by ivanhoe on Thursday March 07, 2019 @11:02AM (#19329109)
AFAIK there's no way of objectively determining the value of anything. Are prices of houses in SF "reflecting their inherent quality" compared to houses in other parts of US? Or is the value of t-shirt with some brand logo sticked on it "objectively determined"? No, they're not, it's all simply negotiated by market's supply and demand, and so is art. It's worth exactly as much as someone is willing to pay for it.
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Re:The $2M Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It (2018) by dragonwriter on Thursday March 07, 2019 @11:53AM (#19329615)
> AFAIK there's no way of objectively determining the value of anything.

You can objectively determine how people subjectively value something, but value is always subjective.

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Re:The $2M Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It (2018) by dwaltrip on Thursday March 07, 2019 @11:15AM (#19329229)
There is signal in the noise, even if it is difficult to see or parse.
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