The stupidest of all stupid clichés is that “the Pope should sell all the Michelangelos and give the money to the poor.”
Who would buy them? A tiny handful of billionaires.
(The Michelangelos would then no longer be in one place, accessible to the public, as they are in the Vatican.)
Then the same stupid cliché-mongers would start up again: “Mr. Getty, Mr. Trump, Mr. Soros, Mr. Slim, etc., should sell the Michelangelos and give the money to the poor.”
And who would buy them? Some other billionaires, ad infinitum. Each time some billionaire buys a Michelangelo, the cry would start again: “Mr. Gotrocks should sell these treasures, and give the money to the poor, blah blah blah...”
The ONLY way the cliché-mongers will be happy is if somebody SMASHES all the sculptures and burns all the paintings, and tears down the Sistine Chapel and St. Peters, etc., etc.
Just like the radical Muslims destroy precious works of art....