#cobraeffect — Public Fediverse posts
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Have you heard the theoretical origin story of the Cobra Effect, which is a Perverse Incentive?
In colonized India, the Brits were concerned about the vast population of cobras. So they offered a bounty on them.
Indians gamed the system, breeding cobras and selling them for the bounty. When the Brits found out, breeders released them into the wild. This inadvertent effect is the Cobra Effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
#Psychology #CobraEffect #PerverseIncentive #India #UK #Colonization
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Bald wirds in Gaschurn die ersten Maikäfer-Farmen geben.
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@UncivilServant Honestly, this is a good thing. Call it the #CobraEffect, but I see a couple outcomes coming from these assumptions.
1. Average people who have a habit of watching pornography are unwilling to stop.
2. This unwillingness will drive them to expand their technical know-how to include VPNs.
3. Thus becoming more enlightened when it comes to privacy protection (even if they're still coomers).
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The 'Eat Out to Help Out' scheme in the UK was probably responsible for 8-17% of all new infections whilst it was active and, ironically, led to the further lockdowns & restrictions that crippled hospitality - which it was intended to help. Relationship seems robust, and rainfall (which affected people going out) also seemed to influence rates of #COVID infection. #CobraEffect. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueab074
