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Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold

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I've been pressing minus twice to type a dash on Mac OS for so long I've forgotten when I started. People are pointing it out to me more and more every day. I think my writing is distinct enough from an LLM for most people, but there's certainly a growing contingent that sees a telltale and assumes everything must be AI generated. Most (all?) keyboards I've used only have a combined hyphen‐minus key (-) which is dist…

If people only fixate on your emdashes, they're just lazy. The bigger AI smell to me is the "it's not X — it's Y," of which the emdash is a part.

That’s not an LLM indicator —it’s totally acceptable grammar.

Re: Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold

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I thought it was bragging rights for the terminally insecure billionaire class.

They get stored in warehouses. No one sees most of this art

I assumed they were stored in yachts or "chateaus" in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

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Let's say that I gift you a suitcase with ten thousand $100 bills that seem legit, but you're not sure. How much would you be willing to pay for a proof that they are indeed legit?

It's a crime to pass counterfeit money. I'm not interested in that kind of trouble. Besides, I don't need to pay to test for it being legit. Just go to a bank.

The legality does break the analogy, but my point was just that a suitcase with ten thousand $100 bills has a non-zero value on its own, but that proving its provenance would significantly increase its value, despite the suitcase staying the same. The argument then is that this is not unique to art - it's (financially) valuable for us to know who made an artifact and what its journey was until it got to us.

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Can you elaborate further on the tax evasion part? The money laundering part I can see since the value of art is subjective and volatile, but how does what OP said explain how art can be used for tax evasion?

The artwork is then given to a museum as a charitable donation for a tax write-off, or so the story goes.

Even if this were true (and it's not), that is not tax evasion.

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The artwork is then given to a museum as a charitable donation for a tax write-off, or so the story goes.

Even if this were true (and it's not), that is not tax evasion.

It's tax avoidance. The difference between the two is one is legal and the other is not.
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