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by incrudible 1915 days ago
> That is either false, or it's true in a way that is meaningless.

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/False-D...

> The "winner" is probably some unknown previz animator working in an outsourced animation studio in India or China somewhere. :)

I get it, you want have some sort of "justice" argument. I don't. Your winner's prize is getting to work overtime. Beeple's prize is 69 million dollars.

> It very likely isn't a coincidence. https://amycastor.com/2021/03/14/metakovan-the-mystery-beepl...

The fact that this guy is shady doesn't really mean anything, there were other less shady bidders as well. This was a auction at Christie's, so it was about as legit as an art auction gets, whatever that means.

> And I don't think the art scene thinks very much of Beeple, so I'm not sure what that proves.

If there's anything the art scene respects, it's money.