Thieves have pulled off a daring heist at the Louvre, stealing priceless Napoleonic jewels. On Sunday, they used a basket lift to access the museum, smashed display cases, and fled with the treasures.
Liquidate some old rich people’s assets to benefit the people of France, or keep them in a box to stare at and remember how much wealthier they all were than you? “Belonged to the people” is a very loose description since they have no control over what the Louvre does.
Sales tax on the tickets alone more than makes up for the value of the item itself though. 8.7 million visitors a year results in a shitton of tax money which benefits the people of France.
Sure, though it could be less people for the same ticket price.
If we look at the extreme case, removing every item from the Louvre but the Mona Lisa would result in significantly less tax income because there’s no way millions would spend [insert Louvre ticket price I am too lazy to research]€ for looking at a single painting for 5 minutes.
Museums with more items generally result in more money.
These are beautiful impressive works of art and craftsmanship and you want to sell them off for like 8 hours of government budget so they can sit in one of those rich guys collections.
You arent just going on about lame ass workerist platitudes about “benefiting the people” its not even a coherent position once you step back even a little.
Wow you love the crown. You’re unable to even think of ways to spend the money outside of government. This mentality is exactly that of Empress Eugénie’s and why the Second Empire was easily overthrown. Valuing jewels over people is astonishingly dystopian.
Diamonds are worthless. Shiny coal.
Some interesting industries applications, but you can get much better quality ones for much cheaper, if you’re looking for that kind of thing.
Falling for a well known scam doesn’t make the crap you bought any less worthless.
Buy a moissanite, if you want a shiny rock. It’s prettier, almost as hard, cheaper than the overpriced cartel shit, and you won’t be financing said cartels.
(And if you just want something particularly hard or good at heat transfer, industrial diamonds are quite inexpensive.)
The only reason jewelry diamonds are expensive (industrial ones are cheap) is the artificial scarcity enforced by the criminal cartels controlling their monopoly.
1300 diamonds in Eugénie‘s crown? That shoulda been sold and given to the people long time ago. Take a pic and move on.
They were in a museum, they belonged to the people there
Liquidate some old rich people’s assets to benefit the people of France, or keep them in a box to stare at and remember how much wealthier they all were than you? “Belonged to the people” is a very loose description since they have no control over what the Louvre does.
Sales tax on the tickets alone more than makes up for the value of the item itself though. 8.7 million visitors a year results in a shitton of tax money which benefits the people of France.
Totally, but people would still line up to see Mona Lisa. Not saying to get rid of the museum.
Sure, though it could be less people for the same ticket price.
If we look at the extreme case, removing every item from the Louvre but the Mona Lisa would result in significantly less tax income because there’s no way millions would spend [insert Louvre ticket price I am too lazy to research]€ for looking at a single painting for 5 minutes.
Museums with more items generally result in more money.
Who said to make the Louvre just the Mona Lisa?
It was an example to illustrate the relation:
Number of items ∝ Tax Revenue
Sell off some royal jewelry and I’m sure people would pay the same price for the ticket.
This is your brain on workerism
Enjoy your cake
These are beautiful impressive works of art and craftsmanship and you want to sell them off for like 8 hours of government budget so they can sit in one of those rich guys collections.
You arent just going on about lame ass workerist platitudes about “benefiting the people” its not even a coherent position once you step back even a little.
Wow you love the crown. You’re unable to even think of ways to spend the money outside of government. This mentality is exactly that of Empress Eugénie’s and why the Second Empire was easily overthrown. Valuing jewels over people is astonishingly dystopian.
Diamonds are worthless. Shiny coal. Some interesting industries applications, but you can get much better quality ones for much cheaper, if you’re looking for that kind of thing.
Diamonds are worthless is a crazy statement. Tell that to every person who has ever had to buy a diamond engagement ring.
Falling for a well known scam doesn’t make the crap you bought any less worthless.
Buy a moissanite, if you want a shiny rock. It’s prettier, almost as hard, cheaper than the overpriced cartel shit, and you won’t be financing said cartels.
(And if you just want something particularly hard or good at heat transfer, industrial diamonds are quite inexpensive.)
Just because you think something is worthless doesn’t mean you can afford to buy it.
It’s fucking carbon.
It’s one of the most common gems on Earth.
The only reason jewelry diamonds are expensive (industrial ones are cheap) is the artificial scarcity enforced by the criminal cartels controlling their monopoly.
If it’s up then it’s up. You’re opinion clearly has no effect on the market.
Of course not. De Beers’ does. That’s the point.
Do try to resell a jewelry diamond, though, and tell me how much profit you made.
The point is that Empress Eugénie’s crown alone could fetch tens of millions for the people of France, whether you like it or not.