These conflicted firms should be held accountable to the taxpayers and participants when this doomed bet fails.

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This lack of accountability places the onus on individual participants to pursue an amicable resolution when a specific project fails.

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This risks consigning art to its worst fate, which one might call iconamnesia when an image fails to arouse either love or antipathy and simply slides into oblivion.

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