>>30345515This reminds me of Brazil (or was it India) and their terrible rat (the literal rodent) problem in the late 19th century / early 20th century
>rats infest cities>government creates a bounty program for killing rats>one brazilian shekel (or whatever their current at the time) per rat>poor people can afford to eat real food for the price of capturing 10 ratsEnd of act 1
>government starts receiving MASSIVE amounts of rat carcasses in return for the bounty>rat problem in the city not only NOT being solved but getting worse>government notices the more bounty they pay the worse the rat problem seems to be turningEnd of act 2
>government investigates the relation between the bounty program and the rat infestation>makes a SHOCKING discoveryIt turns out the local impoverished population was feeding and breeding the rrats in order for them to multiply faster so they could collect more bounty, exacerbating the problem.
Long story short, and the relation to the subject at hand:
>you can't solve a rrat infestation by enlisting help from people benefiting from the rrats in the first placeThat will only create stronger faster better well fed rrats
