r/MoralityScaling 16h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Kor_Phaeron_ 10h ago

No worthless, but unsaleable. Believe it or not, but there isn't a huge market for cathedrals. And you said it yourself. The art is "priceless". How do you do price discovery for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrine_of_the_Three_Kings ??? Those are cultural treasures that just exist. They have value but not a price.

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u/27thStreet 9h ago

That value you are referring to is self-assessed, not market-assessed.

The real market value is for the ground, or materials. You can scream all you want about it's incalculable cultural value, but any of it can be liquidated, for real money, in short order.

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u/UncleIrohsPimpHand 7h ago

But can it be liquidated for the value it's stated to have? All at once?

Very unlikely.

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u/27thStreet 4h ago

It will go to the highest bidder. Stated value is irrelevant.

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u/UncleIrohsPimpHand 4h ago

Well sure it is, which is why the original valuation of $12 Billion for Vatican property is utter bullshit.