> the actual problem was the government set things up edit: so apparently this anecdote was in the article... I guess I just gave away that I commented before

> the actual problem was the government set things up edit: so apparently this anecdote was in the article... I guess I just gave away that I commented before I read the article... Reminds me of the cobra problem in India. After England colonized India, they noticed that India had a cobra problem, so they created a bounty for cobras: bring a dead cobra, get paid. So people, of course, started farming cobras to get paid by the English government. Once the English government figured out what was going on, they scrapped the bounty program and the cobra farmers released all of their now-worthless cobras into the wild... increasing the cobra problem.