Comments by "hedgehog3180" (@hedgehog3180) on "The Problem With Masterworks" video.

  1. That's kinda how it works already, private collections will regularly lend art works out to museums, partly with the goal of marketing said art work so it can be sold for more. Of course the museums themselves could never function as a broker, do I even need to go into all the potential ethical issues of a public educational institution soliciting donations from the public and trying to make a profit?
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  2. I feel like Masterworks is deliberately capitalizing on the stories about the art market being used to launder money and that a lot of art is a scam that went around a couple of years ago. Whenever there are stories like that there'll always be some people who want to get in on it. Those stories seem to have been somewhat exagerated for headlines though or it's just because they came from people who cared a lot about art and were understandably outraged at what they saw as misuse.
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  3. ⁠ @hewhohasnoidentity4377 Potatoes provide a greater service to society though by being very tasty and deserve the recognition.
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