Conceptual work created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was sold at auction in New York last week
The cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun has fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2m (£4.88m) on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall – by eating the fruit.
At one of Hong Kong’s priciest hotels, Sun, 34, chomped down on the banana in front of dozens of journalists and influencers after giving a speech hailing the work as “iconic” and drew parallels between conceptual art and cryptocurrency.
“It’s much better than other bananas,” Sun, who was born in China, said after getting his first taste. “It’s really quite good.”
It’s easy to say this but why are you buying a video game instead of buying someone food? Why are you driving an expensive car?
Yes there are problems in the world that “can be solved by money” but picking and choosing which transactions are wrong isn’t the way to go about it.
Our economic system doesn’t allocate resources according to need, that’s not the fault of these two individuals. Direct your energy toward changing the system.