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They were in a museum, they belonged to the people there
Liquidate some old rich people’s assets to benefit the people of France, or keep them in a box to stare at and remember how much wealthier they all were than you? “Belonged to the people” is a very loose description since they have no control over what the Louvre does.
Sales tax on the tickets alone more than makes up for the value of the item itself though. 8.7 million visitors a year results in a shitton of tax money which benefits the people of France.
Totally, but people would still line up to see Mona Lisa. Not saying to get rid of the museum.
If the Mona Lisa were stolen; you’d have been arguing that that should’ve been sold off as well. These jewels are also historical artwork and have a rich history behind them that can never be recovered.
Sure, though it could be less people for the same ticket price.
If we look at the extreme case, removing every item from the Louvre but the Mona Lisa would result in significantly less tax income because there's no way millions would spend [insert Louvre ticket price I am too lazy to research]€ for looking at a single painting for 5 minutes.
Museums with more items generally result in more money.
Who said to make the Louvre just the Mona Lisa?
It was an example to illustrate the relation:
Number of items ∝ Tax Revenue
Sell off some royal jewelry and I’m sure people would pay the same price for the ticket.
This is your brain on workerism
Enjoy your cake
These are beautiful impressive works of art and craftsmanship and you want to sell them off for like 8 hours of government budget so they can sit in one of those rich guys collections.
You arent just going on about lame ass workerist platitudes about "benefiting the people" its not even a coherent position once you step back even a little.
Wow you love the crown. You’re unable to even think of ways to spend the money outside of government. This mentality is exactly that of Empress Eugénie’s and why the Second Empire was easily overthrown. Valuing jewels over people is astonishingly dystopian.