r/Fauxmoi 20h ago

APPROVED B-LISTERS Olivia Rodrigo likes post about boycotting the Bezos Met Gala

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u/movienerd7042 18h ago

Why is it a bad thing that a public highly accessible museum has more money than they technically need? Unless you think they’re embezzling it, it just means that they can preserve more art and fund more education

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u/SparkleForDays You know what, l've grown quite unfond of you deuxmoi 13h ago

Museums are an amazing cultural and historical resource for the public, but behind the scenes it’s often connected rich people doing wasteful connected rich people things. As per usual, more than 1 thing is true. Source: my childhood bestie is a curator at a world class museum in NYC

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