The purpose of art, like a painting, is to show beauty. The goal of good art is to evoke an emotion in the viewer. Yet a painting, which has the express purpose of showing beauty to evoke emotions can also be an investment. Or art can be used to launder money. Or as a store of value. Art, by metaphorical coincidence, can be about money to those who didn't create it, even as those who create it can use the creation of it to make a living.
If you think this analogy doesn't suit crypto, then you need to attack the analogy.
When someone make an art a "storage of financial value" he doesn't devalue art to the level of money or other financial surrogate, he just show his own inability to understand the purpose of art.
At the same time you could observe "art" that is created for the sole purpose of storing financial value like that Banksy daub or Malevich "paintings". But that things have no any relations to the real art.
So your analogy of art and crypto is perfectly valid. You could account any technology as kind of art. None of them have a purpose of storing someone's financial value.
The purpose of art, like a painting, is to show beauty. The goal of good art is to evoke an emotion in the viewer. Yet a painting, which has the express purpose of showing beauty to evoke emotions can also be an investment. Or art can be used to launder money. Or as a store of value. Art, by metaphorical coincidence, can be about money to those who didn't create it, even as those who create it can use the creation of it to make a living.
If you think this analogy doesn't suit crypto, then you need to attack the analogy.
When someone make an art a "storage of financial value" he doesn't devalue art to the level of money or other financial surrogate, he just show his own inability to understand the purpose of art.
At the same time you could observe "art" that is created for the sole purpose of storing financial value like that Banksy daub or Malevich "paintings". But that things have no any relations to the real art.
So your analogy of art and crypto is perfectly valid. You could account any technology as kind of art. None of them have a purpose of storing someone's financial value.