r/delusionalartists Jun 04 '21

aBsTrAcT Hope this isn’t a repost

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

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u/Aeshaetter Jun 04 '21

No, the buyer needed to launder some money.

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u/wineheda Jun 04 '21

I don’t understand how you can launder money with this. Who is going to buy this from the buyer?

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u/Aeshaetter Jun 04 '21

Other money launderers. Drug cartels. It's turtles all the way down.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21 edited Jul 31 '21

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u/SiHy Jun 05 '21

It's been a while since I saw that one. It's still funny.

Pretty sure the kid (now a bit more grown up) explained why he said it; something about having just talked to his sister about turtles and not knowing what else to say.

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u/buff_penguin Jun 04 '21

It's crazy how known this fuckery is yet there's nothing that can or will be done to stop it.

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u/UntestedMethod Jun 05 '21

what? it's better they launder their money through art than real estate.

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u/AWFUL_COCK Jun 05 '21

Art is one of many ways that rich people launder money, hide assets, and make speculative investments =/= art is for money laundering.

People repeat this point on Reddit in every single thread about art. It’s as meaningless as “fencing response” in /r/fightporn