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It’s like the worst case of broken window fallacy lol.
He’s just made himself poorer.
Like the money would have done more good if he’d donated it.
But I guess that his actual goal was to get attention, since that’s the currency of the day….. and the worst part is that it was amazingly successful.
Like he couldn’t have spent a better $4000 anywhere to get this kind of publicity.
The article states the auction money was going to charity anyway.
Although I guess he could have donated the $4k and someone else would have still paid about $4k for the actual guitar, for a theoretical donation sum of about $8k.