| Dealer: "I want to buy my 14th $120k car even though I dont have a job or legal business that generates the money to do so. The IRS is going to catch on that I'm buying these things through nefarious means." Buyer: "I want 120k bucks worth of cocaine. How should I send you the money?" Dealer: "I'm going to duct tape a banana to a wall and call it art. You buy the art. I drop off the coke." Buyer: "Who the fuck would buy something like that?" Dealer: "You, because you're actually buying the coke, not the banana or duct tape. But to the government, you look like a fucking idiot and I'm just a capitalist opportunist. They then dont question my questionable purchasing decisions because I'm an arteest." I left out some details, but that's the broad brush strokes. Edit: just thought about it. This is also a nice extra layer of plausible deniability for the buyer. "I'm not sending money to acquire drugs/illegal weapons, I'm sending money for a... painting." Cops: "It looks like a toddler drank paint and had projectile diarrhea." "High class taste in sophisticated art cant be explained to simpletons like you." |
I watched this documentary on Netflix called Made You Look. There was a painting in it that sold for crap ton of money - it was literally two rectangles (not perfect rectangles, but close enough. And no, I am not making this up) in different colors. I paused the video and looked at it for a couple of minutes and thought, my 7 year old niece can draw this. What is special about this painting?
So yeah, I guess I am a simpleton who can't understand art ...