De Witt vs Law: is a bubble madness or genius?
JOHN LAW vs NICOLAES TULP go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.
Money is confidence made visible; I gave France paper backed by dreams, and for a glorious season the whole nation grew rich.
And when the dream woke, Monsieur Law, your rich nation held nothing but engraved regret—I dissect corpses precisely because I do not trust what looks alive but is not.
Every fortune ever made began as belief before it became gold; you Dutchmen bid a single tulip past a townhouse and dare lecture ME on froth?
The difference, sir, is I cut a body open to find the truth inside—you sold the whole of France a heart, and left them holding only the paper it was drawn on.
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