Money to Burn - Alex Schaeffer (c.2011)

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DessertStorms@kbin.social · 17 pts · 2y (3 replies)

When you make capitalist so uncomfortable they have you arrested for drawing with chalk on a pavement..

federalreverse@feddit.de · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Naturally, Schaefer’s “Burning Bank series” quickly endeared him to one particular community of financial pirate investors: the Bitcoin community. [...]

Schaefer recently created his first NFT series as well, he says. --source

welp :/

DessertStorms@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Sure, NFTs suck, but that doesn't even put him in the same continent, let alone neighbourhood of evil that banks are in..

federalreverse@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y

My point is more that the crypto folks have essentially all the same shitty instincts that bank people do. Except they're in a barely regulated industry and they're fetishizing a broken technology. On the plus side, the crypto industry is also a bit lower stakes.

As for the artist, I have no clue where he is on the bamboozled<>grifting scale. It just seems he made friends with the wrong people.

Anon819450514@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y

The only thing missing IMHO, is a very small bitcoin detail somewhere.

treadful@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y

Love these paintings.

z00s@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

This is such a punk thing to do. Vaguely threatening enough to get bad people nervous, but completely legal and even ethically sound imo