The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

The issue with aesthetics as primary virtue is established by several facts: 1 That we live in a statistical universe 2 Achieving aesthetic unity requires winning an arbitrary number of consecutive iterations of a negative expectancy game, and 3 That this is subsidized by others

In order to get the holistic unity that makes something aesthetically apparent in our otherwise vacuous, amorphous universe, you have to get lucky. This costs something. Other people pay the cost. The sandcastle still collapses, just after burning massive piles of utility

Markets are almost fundamentally unaesthetic, not because they preclude sequential appearances and thus aesthetic possibility in vacuo, but because they create too many competing aesthetics. There's enough temporal aesthetic unity under markets but not so spacial aesthetic unity.

The problem with markets is they create too many winners for winning to stand out as the appearance of order over chaos. Winning simply becomes a perpetuation of chaos. The interdependence of markets further creates garish violations of the aesthetic.

Fundamentally, all aesthetics are enabled by and derived from violence and coercion, simply because they require the levelling down of background noise as much as they require the sequential and spatial unity of appearances.