Posted by alexandra_k on January 6, 2022, at 10:12:07
In reply to Re: my mother died » beckett2, posted by alexandra_k on January 6, 2022, at 10:06:37
Apparently it is something to do with Arts funding and money laundering. Art is one of those things... You create value. It's subjective. How much a work is worth depends on how much people will pay for it. You don't need to write up bribe or facilitation or exit payments or whatever as those things -- you can purchase works of Art.
So, for example, if one half of a partner in crime kind of a partnership is doing dodgey dealing and the other half is creative in some way then the money can be laundered in for services rendered via the other half.
That makes sense of why it is that some work has such high value / that so much money was paid for the work. In some way... By anonomous buyers or whatever. Or in the form of art scholarships and the like. Continuing positions, even. Government contracts. Etc.
Art is something that people who have already made it (financially) do in their retirement. Every Medically trained person who doesn't work with patients anymore can be a politician (and write law) or an artist. Right? Collect up those lucrative government grants. Do what they want when they want because they want. Beyond the laws. Ahead of the laws. You get the idea.
Rule by law in a private language kind of a nonsense babel-land...
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