Cherished indeed: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bob-ross-paintings-smithsonian-1634419 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bob-ross-paintings-smithso... "In a

Cherished indeed: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bob-ross-paintings-smithsonian-1634419 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/bob-ross-paintings-smithso... "In a short video report produced by the Times, Joan Kowalski, the president of Bob Ross, Inc., explained that while the company does indeed store Ross’s many works—around 1,165 of them—they lack the resources to do so properly. The video shows the paintings stacked in everyday cardboard boxes, piled together in a bland office space without much of a filing system. “They’re not ‘climate-controlled,’” Kowalski explains with air quotes, adding that it’s not “white glove service.”" Interesting to think a little about how Harberger taxes would fix this; no one can make the company treat the paintings better or do something more productive with them, because 'property is monopoly' - but if they had to pay a Harberger tax on the tens of millions of dollars those paintings were worth, they would probably discover that they can in fact do something better with them than stacking them randomly like lumber to get moldy in a warehouse or that people would happily take the paintings off their hands...