Musician GACKT mentioned the resale issue in X on November 7, 2025. He talked about his theory. The topic began when businessman Takafumi Horie asked in X on October 29, “What’s so bad about resale in the first place? I honestly don’t understand the naysayers at all. It’s just filling the gap between supply and demand, and it’s a normal and honorable economic activity,” he posted on X on October 29. This attracted a lot of controversy on the Internet. In a post on August 7, GACKT revealed that he sympathized with the statement, saying, “Horie-kun’s wording is provocative as always, but I don’t think resale is wrong either. If resale is evil in the first place, then stocks and art are no different,” GACKT said, adding, “It is natural in capitalism to move between supply and demand in order to make a profit. On the other hand, he added, “The problem is ‘how’ and ‘moderation.'” “It is not good that things are not delivered to those who originally need them,” he said. “Those who bought up masks and resold them during the Corona disaster and those who bought up water and raised the price during the earthquake are not crimes. This is not a crime, of course. But it is not so beautiful to call it an economic activity.
That is why the business world is so interesting.”
GACKT raised the question, “In the end, do you want to make money even if you have to do it in an unbeautiful way? As to why there are pros and cons about resale, he said, “There are people who work with aesthetics, and there are people who pursue only profit. Therefore, opinions are divided. He added, “The world is not all good people, and good people are not always rewarded. Good and evil and strength and weakness are easily transferable and change with perspectives and times,” he said, adding, “That’s why the business world is so interesting. Well, these issues are a matter of personal power and judgment to calmly read both sides’ arguments,” he wrote. In this post, GACKT received positive comments such as “I really sympathize with the expression ‘whether or not to make money in a way that is not beautiful'” and “It is not that reselling is evil, but that resellers who engage in malicious acts are evil,” as well as “I think it is currently evil because more people think they have suffered disadvantages than those who benefit from reselling. I think it is a problem that the price is determined by the reseller and free competition is lost.