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One of my favourites..... ENJOY!
Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared who announced to the villagers
that he would buy monkeys for $10.00. The villagers, seeing that there were
many monkeys in the forest, went out and started catching them.
The man bought thousands at $10.00. As supply started to diminish and
villagers started to stop their efforts, he announced that now he would buy
them at $20.00.
This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys
again. Soon, the supply diminished even further and people started going
back to their farms.
The offer rate was increased to $25.00 and the supply of monkeys became so
scarce that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it.
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $ 50.00. However, since
he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on
behalf of the man.
In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers, "Look at all
the monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to
you at $35.00 and when the man comes back, you can sell them to him for $
50.00 each."
The villagers queued up with all their savings to buy the monkeys.
*After that, neither the assistant nor the businessman could be found
anywhere but the monkeys were everywhere!*
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