Putting real world values on human beings
Mark Rothko was a famous American painter. In 2007, one of his paintings, painted by him in 1950, was sold at Sotheby’s auction house for a record $73 million dollars. Previous sales of his paintings were in the millions as well. His paintings hang in museums all over the world. People placed a value in the millions on some canvas and paint in a frame. The total value of the materials was very likely a small sum, so why would…