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A Beanie Baby - Tulip Bubble Mash Up 4 Views
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A Beanie Baby - Tulip Bubble mash up. The intrinsic value of water is high. It uh.. saves your life. The intrinsic value of a Tulip became just that of a financial currency-holder. And then it died.
Transcript
- 00:02
all right we're still in the mashup of tulips and beanie babies yeah kind of an
- 00:08
ugly sight there if you think about it alright question time here we go how do [text on screen]
- 00:12
you lift that lost their intrinsic value as this writing passage one that's the
- 00:14
definition of resent in the second paragraph of passage - do you know
- 00:18
that's the answer it's deep why do people love tulips
Full Transcript
- 00:22
yeah they smell good and they look pretty that's their intrinsic value [tulips]
- 00:26
that's it when people stop appreciating these traits and instead view the [tulips in a supermarket]
- 00:30
flowers as a kind of you know currency well the intrinsic value is pretty much
- 00:35
lost the tulip becomes an asset instead of a thing of beauty
- 00:39
yeah show that to a henry david thoreau he would throw up well the prices of [man throws up next to tulip]
- 00:44
luxury goods were inflated due to tulip mania but that had little to do with the
- 00:49
beauty of the tulips and more with the fact that there was so much money
- 00:52
floating around so Nix a foreign investors flooded Holland with cash the [text on screen]
- 00:58
one tulip that's sold for a barn full of goods demonstrates it's trending value
- 01:03
not its intrinsic value so get rid of B and the fact that so many people
- 01:07
participate it also speaks to the abstract value of the investment so get [crowd of people]
- 01:12
rid of C yeah it's a weird weird world we live in
- 01:15
well let's talk about the intrinsic value of two lips and then we're talking [people kissing in car]
- 01:19
about something all right but that's for a totally different video different
- 01:23
audience let's go to bed
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