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This happened in a British colony (India I think but not sure). The government tried to fight poisonous snakes by offering reward for a dead snake. Locals start
by missingnull 4y ago
This happened in a British colony (India I think but not sure). The government tried to fight poisonous snakes by offering reward for a dead snake. Locals started to breed these snakes and turned them in to the government.
- pushedx 4y agoThe “Cobra Effect” Wikipedia article has a nice entertaining list of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
- Thorentis 4y agoWow this is basically a list of shame about poor government decisions.
- codeduck 4y ago"Tax the rat farms" - Havelock Vetinari