Once upon a time in a place overrun with monkeys,a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
The villagers,seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them.
The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, they became harder to catch, so the villagers stopped their effort.
The man then announced that he would now pay $20 for each one.
This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.
But soon the supply diminished even further and they were ever harder to catch.
So people started going back to their farms and forgot about monkey catching.
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys for $50! However,
since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on his behalf.
While the man was away the assistant told the villagers.
'Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the manhas bought. I will sell them to you at $35 each
and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each.'
村民們匯集了所有的積蓄,購買了全部的猴子。
The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys.
and once again there were monkeys everywhere.
村子裡又再次變成到處都是猴子的地方。
They never saw the man nor his assistant again
他們從此再也沒有見到這名男子和他的助理了。
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