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Sounds like perverse incentives[1] in general. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

• happy-go-lucky 10y ago
  > In Hanoi, under French colonial rule, a program paying people a bounty for each rat tail handed in was intended to exterminate rats. Instead, it led to the farming of rats. LOL. Thank you.
  • zardo 10y ago
    http://e360.yale.edu/features/perverse_co2_payments_send_flood_of_money_to_china http://e360.yale.edu/features/perverse_co2_payments_send_flo... A modern incarnation: High incentives for the destruction of a harmful chemical stimulates it's production.
  • morgante 10y ago
    France is hardly the only colonizer to experience the problems of perverse incentives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect