How was the sculpture evaluated to that number though? If it’s all otherwise discarded pallet wood, is it just the hourly rate and time spent on making it that makes it that price? Or is it one of those rich guy tricks where you buy a cheap painting and have someone evaluate it for millions, then donate it to charity for a fat tax write-off scam?
I get that’s not the point of the meme, and I agree that funds a wildly mis-allocated.
The word budget in the screenshot means the money spent to build rather than value.
From the article:
“A $47,000 Kickstarter campaign helped fund the project, which was estimated to cost about $265,000 total.”
No clue how they came up with their cost estimate though… The others on the list only give the crowd funded portion of the cost except for Uchronia which says it cost 800k and also doesn’t explain how that estimate was reached. It was also burned.
How was the sculpture evaluated to that number though? If it’s all otherwise discarded pallet wood, is it just the hourly rate and time spent on making it that makes it that price? Or is it one of those rich guy tricks where you buy a cheap painting and have someone evaluate it for millions, then donate it to charity for a fat tax write-off scam?
I get that’s not the point of the meme, and I agree that funds a wildly mis-allocated.
The word budget in the screenshot means the money spent to build rather than value.
From the article: “A $47,000 Kickstarter campaign helped fund the project, which was estimated to cost about $265,000 total.”
No clue how they came up with their cost estimate though… The others on the list only give the crowd funded portion of the cost except for Uchronia which says it cost 800k and also doesn’t explain how that estimate was reached. It was also burned.