Recently, I learned about an art sale in my town. Pieces were all anonymous and with the same price (VERY affordable for original art). Since this is HN, I should clarify: these weren't NFTs and such, they were drawn by hand on a predefined canvas size.

The name of the artist was revealed only after the piece was sold & there was a high chance that the person was some neighbour living close to you.

I had an absolutely delightful time browsing the art — imagining my room with some of them. I was also astonished to learn that it was the 18th event of our local chapter and this one had over 700 works for sale. They exceeded their sale target by 10%.

I had no idea it existed, but I have known what OpenSea was since about a year ago. One of my friends was complaining that her brother is wasting his time on it and gets absolutely nowhere. Since then I have only seen crypto transaction fees climb so I don't imagine there are less barriers to putting stuff out there.

I wonder in a world where we value things based on their social good and objective usefulness, how many Billions of dollars would my local anonymous art show be worth.