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I'm not an artist and I don't understand art, beyond liking something tangible with an aesthetic that appeals to me. So I'll buy prints, or originals, that I l
by mr_gibbins 4y ago
I'm not an artist and I don't understand art, beyond liking something tangible with an aesthetic that appeals to me.
So I'll buy prints, or originals, that I like, and that I don't mind looking at every day, and hang them on my wall. I have no objection paying a reasonable price for them either - artists have to eat.
The issue I have with NFTs is that they are not art. They are just vessels signifying financial worth. The worth of a painting, a print to me is aesthetic, not financial. But there is no aesthetic worth in an NFT. I can't hang it on my wall. I can't enjoy it every day.
So if we treat NFTs as tokens of value without any artistic worth, they become no more than a variant of another cryptocoin, albeit a 'unique' coin worth $XXX, and by decoupling the artistic argument from the financial argument, all the 'silliness' goes away. It's simply a store of value.