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> isn't $20 million the market price

Not at all: to have a "market" you need buyers, sellers and goods to be fungible.

In your example buyers and sellers are only 0.000001% of humanity: other people cannot afford to play this game.

Also the goods are unique. Brand new paintings would not be sold by the author him/herself at that price 99% of the time. They skyrocket in value only when sold between billionaires.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_(economics)



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