• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    This is a special keystone headline used to warn time travellers to keep on driving to the next timeline, this one is cooked, attempt no landing here

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    Anyone who says the rich deserve to BE rich because they are “clever businessmen” need to repeatedly kicked in the balls.

    Most folks could live comfortably for the rest of their lives on what this idiot spent on a banana.

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      Moderate investing of $6.2 million with a 4-6% return would amount to a monthly payout of $25,833/month. Very comfortably.

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        Which is why it’s really weird for people to be so greedy after they’ve already accomplished five million.

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        And here I am glad that my savings account interest pays for my phone bill+90% of my car bill. Meanwhile I could just be buying a new car every month, instead, with a small loan of $6M

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        25,833 USD a month will result in the ultimate comfortable lifestyle. A big house, car, 100% Healthcare. Everything you could possibly need and a loy more.

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    For anyone else wondering:

    “The artwork owner is given a certificate of authenticity that the work was created by Cattelan as well as instructions about how to replace the fruit when it goes bad.”

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        Bingo, that’s the point. It’s a statement on the value of art. At the end of the day, a painting is just a piece of linen with shit smeared all over it. You might as well just tape a banana to the wall and be done with it. But it also shows something else - art isn’t just paint smeared canvas. It has meaning behind it and it evokes emotion.

        So this guy eating it and pissing off 90% of people does the best thing that he could have done. Also, the remaining 10% know that it is not about the banana on the wall which was replacable. It was about the emotions - the outrage, the trolling. It is the same artwork - since art isn’t just paint / just a banana.

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          This is something I’ve never really stopped to think about until now, but this artwork is actually a piece of genius.

          It’s an idea, or a concept, expressed in the form of a banana taped to a wall. It cannot be destroyed, or duplicated. You can tape a banana to a wall, but there can be only one banana taped to a wall. You can destroy the banana, the tape, or even the wall, and the artwork remains, because you cannot destroy an idea. In fact, someone already has eaten the banana.

          Furthermore, everyone talking about it merely increases the value of the piece.

          It’s absolutely genius.

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    I’ll never understand spending that money like that instead of helping kids with cancer.

    Probably one of the several reasons why I am not rich.

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      You know spending money doesn’t make it vanish into the air right? Someone else has the 6.2 million, and it can still help kids with cancer.

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        I never thought I’d ever see someone argue against helping kids with cancer DIRECTLY when we have excess in the palm our hands, and yet here we are.

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            No you plant the banana and let it multiply so you can dig them up in the warm season and feed many

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          You’re mad at the wrong person. He only has a banana. The banana “artist” has $6.2 million now. Why aren’t they helping kids with cancer? I suggest you go yell at them.

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            Do you think someone spends $6.2 million on fruit if they don’t have an extra few million? He had $6.2 million at MINIMUM, and he chose to eat a banana instead of healing children.

            I think it’s perfectly fair to be mad at a person for the actions they took.

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              He had $6.2 million at MINIMUM

              According to this great reporting by Protos, he holds over $580,000,000 in just Bitcoin, with tens (and sometimes hundreds) of millions in other assets, like TRON (the coin you can see promoted on the side of his microphone in the article’s photo) which is a clone of the Ethereum blockchain he made by simply copying the code, artificially lowering fees, then publishing it as if he created it.

              Not only is he a rich douchebag, but he’s also a plagiarist.

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        Some gifter who managed to convince the world that a banana was worth 6.2 million dollars has that money. They won’t be helping anyone but themselves.

        I hope crypto-bro stole that 6.2 million from a cartel, and his next video involves people with machetes showing him how they feel about it.

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          It’s even worse than that. The banana isn’t the actual thing valued at that price. It’s the exhibit, an abstract arbitrary concept. The banana and duct tape get replaced periodically. This person is just eating a banana for the attention.

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        Same argument about wasting 44 billion to buy twitter.

        A useless website exchanged hands.

        Someone still has the money, why dont they spend it on the poor?

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    surely the banana is rotten by now wasn’t this years ago yup he just replaced the banana so he just ate… a banana, which he could’ve done with every previous banana that went rotten too if he doesn’t mind soft bananas

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    There’s never been a better time to reference Arrested Development;

    “There’s ALWAYS, money, in the Banana Stand”

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    I respect every part except “crypto entrepreneur”.

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      Idk it seems par for the course

      The 34-year-old crypto businessman was last year charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission with fraud and securities law violation in relation to his crypto project Tron.