Economic history has been dominated by basics: growing food & fuel, mating & child rearing, fighting wars, clothing & shelter, worrying about afterlife. Occasionally there have been major agricultural surpluses, which have been spent in a bizarre variety of ways (thread) /1
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Then what’s a bubble? there are industries which are only useful during a limited period in history during which they’re enormously beneficial but then quickly become essentially irrelevant - let’s say e-scooters for example, to be replaced w jet packs. Bubble or evolution?
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The term bubble implies over-inflation of expectation vs reality, but more often than not it’s just the standard hype cycle applied to an actually significant new thing. Just cuz it loses impact over time and eventually fizzles out, does that retroactively make it a bubble?
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