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The good thing about this is that when the next crisis hits that crap will be worthless - or at least depreciated to the hilt. Because you can't eat or trade that shit for much. Unless of course they get bailed out again by the Fed and the government fucks. Keep peddling raising the national debt so those fucks can keep buying their great art work. Hey, at least the artists get a cut ;)

Most of the rich are greedy, glutenous, obsessive pigs that only want more, more, more! They can never be satisfied, and their very identities are mostly tied to their wealth. Their money is who they are. It really is a mental illness.

Would anyone really want to go over to one of these guys houses and spend the whole time having their crappy possessions shoved in your face all day? Nah. Forget it. That would make me sick.

Thoreau said of accumulating wealth"...laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before."

This is why we need moar tax cuts and broaden the tax base (read: Tax the Working and Middle Classes).

Otherwise, we'd get less groundbreaking stencil art. Mars? Vaccines? Fuck that.

Or buy junked battle tanks for a few grand, then spend millions apiece to restore them to factory condition, then park the tanks in a giant garage on your 500 acre real bay area estate.

If the tanks don't keep the neighbors in line the Scud missiles will.

I do respeck whats-his-face for buying fucking Lanai tho.

Gangster.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/magazine/larry-ellison-island-hawaii.html?_r=0

Bellingham Bill says

I do respeck whats-his-face for buying fucking Lanai

Seems like a decent value.
140 square miles of paradise for the price of a couple of Francis Bacon canvases.
Or the 300 milly that Ellison got for his damn boat last year.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

They buy babies straight from the wombs of poor women and EAT THEM, FUCK YOU!

FUCK YOU!

It's Americans' money, and FUCK YOU, they'll throw it form bridges if they want because that is what the Founding Fathers intended.

Right on! I also heard they buy an army of midgets to prance around the dinner table in a ring-token fashion, balancing cylindrical hats upside down on their heads which have lines of blow stacked around the rim so they can snort in regular intervals in between all the caviar and champagne.

With some art auctions, one has to wonder if money laundering is taking place using the transfer of random artifacts to cover the transfer of large sums of money to specific recipient.