Collectors are going crazy for “celebrity clutter”, says The Guardian. With the fine-art market in a slump, interest in cheaper, less risky pop-culture memorabilia is higher than ever. Freddie Mercury’s moustache comb fetched more than £150,000 at auction, well over its estimate of £400; Elvis’s bible, “complete with scribbled marginalia”, sold for £59,000; and one of John Lennon’s teeth was snapped up by a Canadian dentist for £19,000.
@Jennifer@countcol the rich have more money than ever before and the rich have always, by definition, had vastly more than any human could possibly need.
And the rich are, almost to a person, incurably stupid.
@philip_cardella@countcol yeah I am glad I don't understand people with that much money. If I could afford stupid crap like that I'd instead spend it on making the world better. But I don't understand the mindset of wanting to make that much money in the first, which is good.
@Jennifer@countcol exactly. If you're making that much money you're screwing over someone else. Period.
And I'm making a fraction of a fraction of what these people are making and I know that my wealth, relative to most humans, is built on screwing people over too. Not directly, but I certainly benefit from inequality.