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541. The Case of the $4 Million Gold Coffin

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The Economic Argument for Regulation of the Art Market

In Southeast Asia, statues are being taken from temples where they have been sitting for hundreds of years. The loss of scientific and cultural knowledge is one of the biggest pieces of violence that this trade perpetrates on the world. It's not about profit; it's more like this antiquity is a symbol of the brutality of your colonialism. We want that symbol to actually be reversed off still after how successful you were colonizing us.

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