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Comment by joe_the_user | Hacker News Reader

The bad thing is whoever kicked the podium must feel terrible.

Why did they put no effort into protecting this piece? Perhaps because they could easily make another one if it came to it. I mean, it's just a ceramic duplicate of an ordinary balloon dog, of which a million or so are made at children's birthday parties.

Note, Koons himself produces work at scale in what he calls a factory and which is ... a factory.

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    A total of 799 editions of the sculpture were made.

Ie not a total loss for humanity.

That’s .004%* of an increase in value for the rest of them.

*Completely made up number as I’m not an art valuer, but the point stands.

Clearly the route to infinite value is destroying all of them

There can only be one.

Now I understand better that New Yorker cartoon: “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

Then I give 1/799th of a shit about this.

Assuming it's totally useless, making 799 of these pricey thingies is certainly a waste.

> The bad thing is whoever kicked the podium must feel terrible

When my children were small, they were terrified to break things in supermarkets. I told them that it is always the supermarket fault when something is not fixed properly.

Of course this is for accidental damage.

That whoever should sue the show for anxiousness /s

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