Talvez um pouco chamado de errado "Uma coisa de beleza" por Norman Spinrad? Pelo que me lembro, e como esse resumo sugere, um guia americano tenta vender o Yankee Stadium ao plutocrata japonês visitante, que é tentado, mas finalmente decide contra isso a favor de comprar a Ponte do Brooklyn.
An especially neat example is Norman Spinrad's short story from 1973, "A Thing of Beauty," first published in Analog January 1973, and later reprinted in Spinrad, No Direction Home (1975). This is set in a future America, depressed and bankrupt, in which an American antique dealer (almost the only paying trade left in the country) is visited by a Japanese billionaire who wants to buy an outstandingly impressive cultural artifact. The dealer, Harris, tries to sell the buyer, Mr. Ito, a sequence of American cultural icons, first the Statue of Liberty (now headless); then the baseball stadium, now derelict, of the New York Yankees; finally the United Nations Building. All three are rejected. The first is too sad. The second is greeted with greater enthusiasm, but rejected in the end, in spite of Mr. Ito's own personal wishes, because he knows the stadium would carry no prestige within Japanese society. The third is rejected contemptuously as an icon of political failure. And then Ito sees the now-unused Brooklyn Bridge, and insists on buying it to be re-erected in Japan. The joke here is that Brooklyn Bridge has iconic status within America as the thing that only a hayseed would imagine he could buy, the colossal equivalent of a fake gold brick. But the joke turns on Harris, not Ito, once it has been taken away, re-erected, and turned into one of the wonders of the world. Ito proves his astuteness (and his wealth) by sending Harris a fake gold brick: only it is not a fake, it is pure gold.
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