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by paulpauper
1962 days ago
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>It’s simple: As the number of elephants declines, tusks become rare. Rarity pushes prices up. High prices make hunters excited about how much money they can make if they find an elephant. So they work overtime. Then fewer elephants remain, tusk prices rise even more, more hunters catch on, they work triple-time, on and on until the number of hunters explodes as everyone chases the last herd of elephants whose super-rare tusks are suddenly worth a fortune. Or maybe simply selling tusks is profitable and there does not need to be a feedback loop for elephants to go extinct. |
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but that's not logical, because if selling tusks is profitable, then more people will want to join in, thus increasing the number of tusks being sold (implying more elephants being killed for it). Until profit goes away due to drop of demand at least.