Pot plant mania has declined since its peak a few years ago in New Zealand when tiny monstera was going for $100, while you can get a large established monstera for $100 today. Unlike tulip bulbs pot plants do have aesthetic value and those who overpaid did it because they genuinely wanted a plant, not for speculation.
tiny monstera was going for $100, while you can get a large established monstera for $100 today.
This isn't about monstera, it's about Mini Monstera (Brand name) and Monstera ‘Albo’
Unlike tulip bulbs pot plants do have aesthetic value
Tulipmania is mostly made up and still is a global billion $ business 400 years latter and it does bring beauty to the world for anyone who's not a dried up HN user angry they can't understand tech anymore.
But there is an element like expensive watches where Monstera Albo were both a status symbol and a complex thing of pleasure but unlike tulips I can't see it continuing.
A Monstera albo is not going to beat my 15 foot monstera long term, I don't think humans like unsymmetric variegated plants. Without being told it's impressive I'm not sure it is.
Here’s a link debunking the tulip mania myth [1]. Put shortly, the myth was created as a moral campaign against speculators. Interestingly, one of the propagators of the myth was complicit in pumping the rail bubble, which did far more economic damage.
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Pot plant mania has declined since its peak a few years ago in New Zealand when tiny monstera was going for $100, while you can get a large established monstera for $100 today. Unlike tulip bulbs pot plants do have aesthetic value and those who overpaid did it because they genuinely wanted a plant, not for speculation.
Tulip bulbs can be directly used to produce aesthetic value in exactly the same manner as pot plants.
This isn't about monstera, it's about Mini Monstera (Brand name) and Monstera ‘Albo’
Tulipmania is mostly made up and still is a global billion $ business 400 years latter and it does bring beauty to the world for anyone who's not a dried up HN user angry they can't understand tech anymore.
But there is an element like expensive watches where Monstera Albo were both a status symbol and a complex thing of pleasure but unlike tulips I can't see it continuing.
A Monstera albo is not going to beat my 15 foot monstera long term, I don't think humans like unsymmetric variegated plants. Without being told it's impressive I'm not sure it is.
Here’s a link debunking the tulip mania myth [1]. Put shortly, the myth was created as a moral campaign against speculators. Interestingly, one of the propagators of the myth was complicit in pumping the rail bubble, which did far more economic damage.
[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...