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No reasonably informed person is talking about Tulips when they cite Tulip mania, they're talking about the speculative bubble around Tulips. To put it in a dif
by Traster 5y ago
No reasonably informed person is talking about Tulips when they cite Tulip mania, they're talking about the speculative bubble around Tulips. To put it in a different context, when we talk about the global financial crisis of 2007, no one suggests we should ban owning houses, but we did need to heavily regulate the financial instruments that drove the creation of that bubble. And if we're going to talk about mania I've got a great example of mania for you:
> Bitcoin and blockchain are genius technology, on par with the greatest achievements in mathematics and theoretical physics.
You're basically demonstrating the mania that you decry. I'd love to hear on what basis you can possibly argue that bitcoin/blockchain is somehow on the same level as the discovery of gravity, or the discovery of radioactivity, or the theory of relativity.
- glofish 5y agogravity did not need to be discovered :-) everyone was subjected to it all the time on a more serious note, for what is worth, discovering radioactivity was accidental, there was no premeditated thought process, so that does not count ;-) now when it comes to relativity - that indeed required a radical idea, the constancy of speed of light. Which required a genius. Like bitcoin. I did not say bitcoin was better than the theory of relativity, I said on par.