How telling that even in an article raising the issue, they don’t mention the security that comes with the massive network of private collections on the internet.

It literally seems like at every turn, capitalism just degrades the value of what humanity creates. It keeps art locked away in obscurity or unfinished because of the greed of copyright holders who aren’t even artists themselves. It provides a strong market incentive to sell off quality products so that they can have their value completely torpedoed for the sake of quarterly profits.

Currency is supposed to grease the wheels of civilization, not bring all productivity to a halt in a spectacular mess of paper-chasing.