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I agree but: I guess the stance comes from the arts being humanity's way of expressing itself within this environment. To reduce someone's attempt at self-expression to "we don't really get or care what your intentions were, but its kinda cool [or we've been told it is] so here's some money," seems disappointing. I imagine it would bother an artist even more if those individuals then just used the piece to brag. Also, money laundering. Absolutely.There's a lot of good art and a lot of bad art in the world; the difference is often purely subjective, and who knows why X gets hot and Y withers and dies in obscurity.