British Museum is digitizing its entire collection in response to recent thefts | All of that scanning will cost over $12 million.::The British Museum is digitizing its entire collection of more than eight million pieces, at a total cost of over $12 million. This move was announced after the museum experienced a theft back in August.
Why the fuck is anyone writing an article about $12M dollars?
Do people not understand what rich people make from passive investments? Literally just repurpose a single rich person’s passive investment and you can pay to digitize a library’s worth of artifacts every year for eternity.
Society is absolutely fucked in the head if anyone is allowed to build a yacht without getting crowbarred in the back of the calf while we’re considering whether or not “we can afford to pay” to preserve priceless historical artifacts.
As a planet, we can afford to house, feed, and clothe everyone on the planet.
We choose not to because that would be “too hard”
Sure, I don’t expect 20 people to go around and do that sort of thing solo, but damn we could all just do 1/6,200,000,000th of a thing.