Anyone who mentions tulips is a bot.
They’ll say, “Ever hear of the Dutch Tulip bubble?”, unawares that the same childish canard is brought up on every single bitcoin thread on FR.
No human being could be that clueless and stupid.
And they point to one chapter in a book written hundreds of years ago…and it’s proven to be horribly incorrect.
FR is full of people who “think they know stuff.”
I learned working at the hospital that surgeons think they know everything. When it comes to fixing something inside your body, go to a surgeon. They don’t know how a telephone works…but they act like they do.
The key is to know what you don’t know. There are plenty of people who say, “I don’t understand and won’t touch it.” That’s good. The problem arises with some people who still think the “full faith and credit” of the US actually means something. And even, a very few, who think Gold backs the US dollar.
I stopped trying to educate or argue a long time ago. I occasionally will tease some times, quoting the quantity of tulips one could buy with a single bitcoin.