Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong

Re:Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubbl... by TheOtherHobbes on Saturday February 17, 2018 @09:12AM (#16400734)

This is like arguing that it was rational to appear to be an enthusiastic Christian to avoid being burned alive by the Spanish Inquisition.

If everyone around you believes something fundamentally irrational, it can be situationally rational to appear to have the same belief system.

But that only proves thst rational people are adaptable, not that the belief system itself makes sense, or that it doesn’t create terrible outcomes.

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Re:Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubbl... by mbroncano on Saturday February 17, 2018 @02:39PM (#16402316)

Which is mainly also overblown [1] and one of the first world wide, anti-imperialist campaigns in modern history. And wildly successful if I might say.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend

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