$BTC One day, a merchant appeared in a village and announced to the residents that he would buy monkeys from them for $10. The villagers, seeing how many monkeys were in the jungle, abandoned their plots and began catching monkeys. The merchant bought thousands of monkeys for $10, but the number of monkeys began to decrease and catching them became increasingly difficult.

Then the merchant raised the reward for catching each monkey to $20. And the people began catching monkeys again. Soon food in the village became scarce and the villagers slowly began returning to their fields. The merchant raised the price to $50. However, he needed to go to the city on business and left his assistant in his place.

The assistant gathered all the village residents and proposed a deal: Look at all these cages with thousands of monkeys that you've already caught. I'm willing to let you have them for just $35, and when the merchant returns, you can sell them to him for $50 each!

The village residents thought about it, calculated, then gathered all their savings, borrowed money, and bought all the monkeys for $700 billion. After that, they never saw the merchant or his assistant again. But they were left with large debts and monkeys they had no use for.

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