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Learn from this parable:
>“Shortly
before the Patrician came to power there was a terrible plague of rats.
The city council countered it by offering twenty pence for every rat
tail. This did, for a week or two, reduce the number of rats—and then
people were suddenly queueing up with tails, the city treasury was being
drained, and no one seemed to be doing much work. And there still
seemed to be a lot of rats around. Lord Vetinari had listened carefully
while the problem was explained, and had solved the thing with one
memorable phrase which said a lot about him, about the folly of bounty
offers, and about the natural instinct of Ankh-Morporkians in any
situation involving money: “Tax the rat farms.” |