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You can hang a painting on your wall and flaunt it. Nobody looks at the bits on your hard disk.

Many NFTs either come with or are designed for a physical representation. 100s or 1000s are already installed and viewable IRL. Being an NFT does not preclude the art from being traditionally enjoyed.

Being an NFT does not preclude anyone else from hanging the exact same physical representation on their wall. Exclusivity matters if you want to impress your rich friends.

That is a circular argument. That is the same argument as print vs original -- NFT owners are paying for the original to support the art regardless of how accurate a print may be.

It's much more impressive to those people to have paid to support the original rather than having a knockoff... This has been true as long as goods have been produced.

The physical representation of the "print" and "original" can be identical and indistinguishable in the case of an NFT

> NFT owners are paying for the original to support the art

This is a funny way of saying "to enter a speculative market with foolish money."

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