People charging to see a Banksy

http://news.yahoo.com/as-banksy-tours-new-york-city--locals-are-charging-for-looks-at-his-artwork-134522157.html

News article got posted today about how a few people have decided to profit from one of Banksy's works.
They covered the work up with cardboard and are charging people $20 to get a look/photograph it.

Whereas other people carve banksy's work out of walls to preserve them, these people are motivated by sheer greed.

It's sad, because Banksy's work is on places it shouldn't be as a statement against the art institution and being told "where" to be creative. He has his own reasons for why he doesn't want to do work on a canvas and have people pay to get into a museum to see it. As such, these people are defeating the point of the work itself by charging for people to see it.

-Thomas Holland