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The tulip bubble is over sold as this massive event that caused people to lose everything.
This is story told through a Victorian lense and the story was an exaggeration of the moral bankruptcy. That morphed into the myth of it being financial bankruptcy.
The wealthy elites came out with little harm. It was the middle classes that were hit hardest.