https://www.axios.com/2024/11/22/banana-worth-6-million

If we paid more than 42 cents (in American dollars) for that “Comedian,” we would want to remain anonymous, but Justin Sun has chosen to reveal himself, and also to let everyone know that he plans to eat the banana!  (Whatever will he do with the left-over duct tape?)

It’s not as if it were a Rembrandt or Picasso, with the prospect of finding a next greater fool to pay even more at next year’s auction.

What about the banana? Can it just be replaced with a new one?  [Oh wait — that’s already been done, after the “artwork” was vandalized by someone with questionable artistic taste.]  Is it like the house that had every piece of wood replaced one by one over the years — is it still the same house?

We suppose this is only the most recent implied commentary on the future value of the U.S. dollar, now under attack by the BRICS currency conglomerate and even cryptocurrency.

Speaking of Bitcoin, this waste of significant money for “Comedian” could be overshadowed by the “Wish I had thought further about that!” moment suffered by the early Bitcoin buyer who tested out whether it could actually buy anything — and forked over 10,000 Bitcoin for a pizza!  (We ran out of fingers trying to count the current market “value” of 10,000 of them, but it still wouldn’t get the holder onto the Forbes 400 list.)

In contrast, what would our readers do with a spare $6.2 million?

The Molière Citations team welcomes suggestions, and holds out no hope that anyone else would use it to buy “Comedian” — more likely just go down to the supermarket and buy a banana and a roll of duct tape and create a forgery.  That leaves about $6.19999 million to fritter away in more creative ways.

Congratulations to Justin Sun — buyer of the “artwork” and winner of the Molière Citation — if you ask us, we’ll gladly send you a replacement banana and a whole roll of duct tape for future use.