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Re:FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public ... by vermontdevil on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:02PM (#13843219)
It's like declaring a bounty on a certain invasive species.

This usually motivates people to breed said species to collect the bounty.

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Re:FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public ... by seanp2k2 on Friday March 10, 2017 @07:47PM (#13843426)
Consider, throughout history, how much time humans have wasted on such endeavors in the name of currency.
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Re:FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public ... by TeMPOraL on Saturday March 11, 2017 @03:14AM (#13844760)
When I consider how much time, resources and effort humans have wasted on stupid / harmful shit in the name of currency, I just want to cry.
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Re:FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public ... by dredmorbius on Saturday March 11, 2017 @03:19AM (#13844772)
I'm leaning strongly to the view that modern "free-market capitalism" is really a variant on mercantilism, in which liquidity has replaced gold and silver.

The end results are rather similar.

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Re:FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public ... by preid24 on Saturday March 11, 2017 @08:19AM (#13845327)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
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