"I was able to identify only 37 people who spent more than 300 guilders on bulbs, around the yearly wage of a master craftsman. Many tulips were far cheaper."
-Tulip mania was bullshit. https://theconversation.com/tulip-mania-the-classic-story-of-a-dutch-financial-bubble-is-mostly-wrong-91413 … h/t @pomeranian99
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You're bang on about the bubble being a particular hallmark of modern society -- an alchemical reaction between the enhanced ways people can interact (financially, tele-communicatively, etc., beginning a couple hundred years ago) with our millennia-old positional psychlogy
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People who are into Bitcoin now act like they have a window on the future, a skeleton key to fate, that the rest of us lack - if only we'd join the mania.
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