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Willem Atsma (sn0wbl1nd@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 01:00:15 JST Willem Atsma
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- Cory Doctorow
- Marcia MacDonald
@marcia @pluralistic I like it. I doubt there is political courage for this.

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Willem Atsma (sn0wbl1nd@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 10:37:15 JST Willem Atsma
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- jwz
@jwz and so appropriate it should be a tulip farmer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania?wprov=sfla1
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  Tulip mania (Dutch: tulpenmanie) was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels. The major acceleration started in 1634 and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637. It is generally considered to have been the first recorded speculative bubble or asset bubble in history. In many ways, the tulip mania was more of a then-unknown socio-economic phenomenon than a significant economic crisis. It had no critical influence on the prosperity of the Dutch Republic, which was one of the world's leading economic and financial powers in the 17th century, with the highest per capita income in the world from about 1600 to about 1720. The term tulip mania is now often used metaphorically to refer to any large economic bubble when asset prices deviate from intrinsic values. Forward markets appeared in the Dutch Republic during the 17th century. Among the most notable was one centred on the tulip market. At the peak of tulip mania, in February 1637, some single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual...

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