No

It’s actually a simple formula

Take what you paid for the print, divide it by how many teeth he has left. Times by his many tattoos and then subtract the number of people who think he’s a melt,.

Your print is currently worth zippidy f**k

Doesn’t Ben beat women too? But I guess that’s ok for Retna fans... so sure, why not. Rich people love to support shitty people.

No, similar to a shift to ESG stocks you'll probably see more collectors... except for the All Lives Matter crew ... have morals that won't allow them to buy such art.

You can see how the forum reacted after the news came out, as it should have.

Speaking with great authority: Yes, they will be very valuable in the future. I would highly recommending investing a large percentage of a person's funds into Ben Eine prints. You'll thank me when you're old and grey.

Anyone else ever feel like they're sometimes in an anthill, and some kid comes along and pokes it with a stick now and then, to make the ants move about and post stuff?

It’s cruel to do that to an ant hill. The kid that did that was usually an intellectually challenged bully.

That reminds me of a time when I was about 8 years old. I was playing by a local pond with the other kids from my street, and this pond and the land around it was just awash with frogs. Big ones, small ones, massive ones, they were everywhere. Anyway, this one kid (an older kid - described at the time as hyperactive by his mum because he once tried to make a hole through their kitchen wall with a knife and fork) picked up a rock and started pounding as many frogs as he could. It was horrific and I wasn't having it. I considered punching him a lot but he was bigger than me and my life isn't a movie where things work out well in the end for the wimpy kid. So I did the next best thing; I found this old bucket, then started gathering up as many frogs as I could find.

After about half an hour of solid Kermit grabbing, I must've had about 80 - 100 frogs. And I dragged, DRAGGED this ribbiting and croaking bucket back up the hill to my house, up the stairs and into my bedroom. I figured they could stay the night or a few days, until it was safe to take them back to their pond. I slid the bucket under a chair in my room, and then went down for dinner.

I guess I just kinda figured the frogs would know to stay where they were, but, about half an hour later, from upstairs, we heard the first of my sister's screams.

It was like a scene from a horror movie up there. We were still finding frogs over a week later. True story, my grandmother thought we'd been cursed. 

Most of the art in this scene will return value how art use to be , when the artists are no longer around , so in eine case 40-50 year wait ? year wait until you Can seek the vast values

Art is a terrible investment.
The odds are against the collector persistently.
It’s value isn’t just the quality of the work.
But the quality of the artist’s morals.
Which is as stable as a crack addict’s mood swings.
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Buy stocks if you want an “investment”.

It’s written in most investment journals that art is in fact the best investment if you know what you’re doing. Even a moron can by banksy and see a 20% YOY growth return. What else returns that?

If you like his stuff buy it. If you are buying for investment, hmmmmm. His older stuff is pretty cool (Adventure, Exciting). His typography keeps changing so if you like it then yes. Investment, I think you can get what you are in it for, more than that it depends on the piece i guess and where / when you sell it. I had a black glitter Amazement and Amusement that sold via a gallery and got a little more that I paid for it. Like all art buy it if you like it. Otherwise buy a tracker fund! For full disclosure I still have the above and no I am not selling and I don't care if they are going up or down. I do have a black revolution (small edition), if someone wants that, but in it for a fair bit and not going to take a bath, so it can go on the wall.
Peace out

$SHOP, $SPY, $TSLA and $NKLA.

Maybe $HTZ, lol.

I tried that, after a few months surprisingly little was left and I had an increasing paranoia that someone else had been at it. Worthless now as all that's left is some crushed up hayfever tablets