- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollars
To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio.
“Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” he told the Guardian.



That’s an old-fashioned view. The magic of modern capitalism is that you can lose money every single day, providing something no one wants, and still get valued at hundreds of billions of dollars.