Conceptual work created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was sold at auction in New York last week
The cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun has fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2m (£4.88m) on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall – by eating the fruit.
At one of Hong Kong’s priciest hotels, Sun, 34, chomped down on the banana in front of dozens of journalists and influencers after giving a speech hailing the work as “iconic” and drew parallels between conceptual art and cryptocurrency.
“It’s much better than other bananas,” Sun, who was born in China, said after getting his first taste. “It’s really quite good.”
People living in the streets, going to bed / waking up hungry, or on the verge of bankruptcy from medical bills. Should I do something about that or should I spend $6.2 million on a banana that was duct-taped to a wall and deemed “art”?
The wrong fucking people have money.
At least he has spent the 6 mill.
I find that better than if he had continued to sit on the money. Somebody else can do better things with it now.
True, good point.
This is just the rich shuffling money between themselves and getting attention for it.
In many cases the people were shitty to begin with. But also having that much money and therefore power is really bad for you brain
It’s easy to say this but why are you buying a video game instead of buying someone food? Why are you driving an expensive car?
Yes there are problems in the world that “can be solved by money” but picking and choosing which transactions are wrong isn’t the way to go about it.
Our economic system doesn’t allocate resources according to need, that’s not the fault of these two individuals. Direct your energy toward changing the system.
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