Should’ve gone with the 2020 gun buyback where a single person got thousands for 3D printed single shot handguns that cost between $5 and $8 to make. The next year they banned them.
@Liberty4Ever Жыл бұрын
There was an online contest to see who could buy the most new guns and ammo with gift cards from gun "buybacks". There are fewer gun "buybacks" now, and most of those offer gift cards that can be redeemed for food and not guns - shades of how life will be after the central bank digital currency is enacted.
@gblargg Жыл бұрын
@@Liberty4Ever "offer gift cards that can be redeemed for food and not guns" because nobody would ever redirect their grocery budget to buying guns and use the buyback cards to buy the groceries.
@Liberty4Ever Жыл бұрын
@@gblargg - Yeah. The people doing the gun "buybacks" aren't the sharpest tools in the shed and they excel in unintended consequences. Leftists have no understanding of economics or they wouldn't be leftists. Everyone else intuitively understands the economic principle that states, "All funds are fungible."
@kingrex1931 Жыл бұрын
In 2008, several guns actually cost less than the $250, but your example is even better. They simply should have done both.
@tuseroni6085 Жыл бұрын
@@gblargg yeah something people often forget...i think there was something like that with the lottery, the money from the lottery was earmarked to go to schools, sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions, what could POSSIBLY go wrong...turns out with money going from the lottery to schools you could redirect funds intended for the schools to other things.
@sashagray319 Жыл бұрын
Kern County California was alarmed by the number of massage parlors offering prostitution. They implemented a high annual fee for all massage therapists with the intention of flushing out the sex trade. But the only massage therapists that could afford the high fee were the ones selling sex, which put all the legitimate massage therapists out of business.
@DanArnets1492 Жыл бұрын
Awesome unintended consequences in my book 😎
@ThePsiclone Жыл бұрын
where is that again? (asking for a friend)
@Shorty_Lickens Жыл бұрын
when was this? I only ask cuz I lived in Ridgecrest from 2003 to 2006 and believe me I could have used some stress relief.
@nutandboltguy372010 ай бұрын
Perfect!
@gorilladisco910810 ай бұрын
What the hell did they think will happen? Of course the only ones who can afford the fee are the prostitute. *facepalm
@emmettturner9452 Жыл бұрын
Small trucks all but disappeared too as CAFE standards tightened. That’s why the Ford Ranger and Toyota Tacoma are so huge now. Compare them to the early ‘90s…
@cguy2guy511 Жыл бұрын
I know stupid Cafe standards make it so you can't have a small truck. My old Tacoma is bigger than I needed for sure.
@Furluge Жыл бұрын
What is worse is they still make the small trucks people want. They just won't sell them in the US.
@ledzeppelin1212 Жыл бұрын
@@cguy2guy511I love the old Ford Rangers and Tacomas. I was wondering why they've been growing so big over the years.
@MrJeffcoley1 Жыл бұрын
Repealing CAFE standards is the single best thing Congress could do to revitalize the US auto industry.
@MrJeffcoley1 Жыл бұрын
@@Furluge Same with extremely efficient compact diesel cars that get 70 mpg sold in Europe. Illegal in the US because they don't meet emissions requirements.
@RealityOrganized Жыл бұрын
~2009: EPA outlawed the old gas cans, which didn’t spill, and we are now stuck with gas cans with so many safety features it is nearly impossible to pour gasoline without spilling it.
@brassmule Жыл бұрын
You can buy "repair" kits with a new nozzle and a screw in air intake hole to return your "new" gas cans to original spec, also, which does a great job of allowing you to pour gas efficiently while creating more plastic waste from the useless nozzle you threw away.
@patrick8116 Жыл бұрын
An instructional video should NOT be required to operate a gas can.
@jayschafer1760 Жыл бұрын
@@patrick8116Just copy the superior design the Germans used in WWII and be done with it, I'd say. That's basically what the Allies did.
@cmichaelhoover8432 Жыл бұрын
@@brassmule I have "repaired" about 9 or 10 gas cans. EPA should love me as I spill much less gas now!
@jayschafer1760 Жыл бұрын
@@cmichaelhoover8432 Shhhh... That's a big argument from the environmental lobby to outlaw fossil fuel powered yard tools, too much spilled gas. Never mind that the gas can designs the same environmental lobby insisted on cause much of the spilling of gas.
@Telmach Жыл бұрын
This series is eventually going to catalogue nearly every action taken by the Government, and the playlist will be 4,870 years long.
@joseornelas1718 Жыл бұрын
what could possibly go wrong?
@zwerko Жыл бұрын
Only two things are infinite, human stupidity and government stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. If there is one thing we can all be sure of is that the government will never run out of bad ideas.
@bartman59laj55 Жыл бұрын
I guess that will be the unintended consequence.....lol
@katieandkevinsears7724 Жыл бұрын
Are you sure it will be so short? I was thinking at least 15,000 years.
@gambitsheild9814 Жыл бұрын
Big government makes big mistakes, small government makes small mistakes.
@timhinchcliffe5372 Жыл бұрын
We had a big gun buy back in Australia in the 90's. It was totally rorted... one example, people would actually get pieces of old guns and make up the rest of the gun with whatever garbage and claim it as a complete gun. They somehow managed to make two guns out of one, claim air rifles as much more expensive rifles, etc.
@dbio305 Жыл бұрын
Yup it’s even funnier as Aussie gun restrictions think that an air gun can be “easily” converted to a real one, despite the pressures being wildly different
@alflyover4413 Жыл бұрын
@@dbio305 In 1994, the US implemented an assault weapons ban that included magazines larger that 10 rounds. The basic premise was that shooters would use their 10+ -round magazines and they would wear out, limiting shooters to 10 rounds in magazines that could legally be sold. Meanwhile, there are any number of Colt 1911 magazines made in 1912 that are still readily usable to feed ammunition into the pistol. And 1912 was 111 years ago.
@MrCharles7994 Жыл бұрын
And the gun buyback obviously didn't work, right? Right? Oh, what's that, it did? Huh. It's almost like anti government propaganda is driven by lies and profits, not reality! Who'd have thunk it. The truth is that gun buybacks work, but only when done everywhere, and without intentional obstruction by extremists. Yes, they can cost a lot, but a human life is worth more than a million dollars in hard economic math. It's worth the expense. The CAFE spiel is just lies start to finish. The loophole was closed, it's exploitation was much later than the initial programs inception, and the program succeeded. Fuel economy improved.
@dbio305 Жыл бұрын
@@alflyover4413 oh I know, and the logic never approaches any level of intelligence
@inulomar1776 Жыл бұрын
Didn't happen, the valuation was done by specialists, so a piece of crap was valued as a piece of shit, don't be scared American, NZ did the same and it worked well too
@shedactivist Жыл бұрын
In the 1980's after an airline crash-landing killed a couple of babies held on the mother's laps a law was introduced to ban that practice and that every baby had to have a full priced seat on the airplane. The unintended consequence was that young families chose (were forced) to travel long distances by car, and in doing so more road accidents that killed many more babies.
@Sandman2007 Жыл бұрын
I love these series of unintended consequences! Keep it up.
@LibLibertyLibertarian Жыл бұрын
fux I was gonna say that!
@fouresterofthetrees287 Жыл бұрын
In the 80's, Texas Governor Mark White decided that if vehicle owners were willing to pay $15 extra for a personalized license plate, they would pay $60. He thought everyone with such a plate would pay. Guess what? Many people, including my father, decided it wasn't worth it. Instead of raising an extra $20 million, it only raised $40,000. Lack of basic economic understanding.
@MrJeffcoley1 Жыл бұрын
Europeans perplexed by the popularity of trucks in the US - here is your answer. CAFE (Corporate Aggregate Fuel Economy) standards distorted the US auto market. Manufacturers were constructively prevented from making the cars consumers want to buy, forcing them to shift to "light trucks." Another unintended consequence, the regulations also destroyed the very popular fuel efficient compact truck market. Small inexpensive 4 cylinder pickups were forced to become larger and heavier "midsize pickup trucks" to fit into the regulatory scheme.
@aevangel1 Жыл бұрын
BINGO!!!
@simonwinn8757 Жыл бұрын
CAFE has a fuel efficiency equation, which meant the larger vehicle footprint needed a lower fuel efficiency. So if you have a small pickup with a footprint of 42 sq ft, it need an efficiency of 42 mpg, where as a 74 sq ft needs 25 mpg. It's a lot easier to just build the vehicle bigger, than to design a better engine.
@MrJeffcoley1 Жыл бұрын
@@simonwinn8757 The fuel efficiency goal are arbitrary and too high. CAFE should be scrapped, it’s a relic of a bygone era.
@thecursed01 Жыл бұрын
similar in germany. a battle tank would get a better eco classsification than a normal sized family car. also the reasons why ppl who complain that there are no small trucks anymore blame it on egos of buyers, not the gov regulations
@pipsplay Жыл бұрын
Right! So now I can't replace my Mazda B2200 that was small, light, and got great gas mileage (but not up to CAFE standards for it's size). Instead I have to get a Dodge RAM that's cool enough, but way too big to just go across town to go to work.
@christopherlarsen7788 Жыл бұрын
1:14 "And after all we've done for them." My God - that was funny! Love this series!
@navchinna Жыл бұрын
Fr that was hilarious.
@jeremytessier5316 Жыл бұрын
Every "Sounds like a great idea! With the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong?" had me choking with laughter. This is the greatest series I have ever discovered
@margaretthemagnificent Жыл бұрын
Get ready to have that voice follow you around and pop up in your head all the time.
@osmia11 ай бұрын
+
@Hyper_Drud10 ай бұрын
I loved the earlier videos where an idea that’s obviously questionable and the narrator makes concerned noises before asking what could possibly go wrong?
@grizwoldphantasia5005 Жыл бұрын
Regarding the opium fields, the British Raj in India discovered the same thing with cobras, and the French in Indochina discovered it with rats. Or something like that.
@michaelsommers2356 Жыл бұрын
The cobra thing was covered in an earlier episode.
@Wireball11 ай бұрын
I still can't believe that the cobra farmers set the cobras loose when the program ended. That's malicious.
@hendo337 Жыл бұрын
You forgot Cash For Clunkers, took a bunch of good running used vehicles off the market, especially vehicles that had "poor fuel economy" that were ruggedly built, like body on frame, V8, rwd vehicles that can easily last 20-30 years when maintained. The program penalized the poor by taking reasonably priced cars out of the market and incentivized the rich who can afford new cars..
@EF-69 Жыл бұрын
Those used vehicles had to be destroyed and scrapped, removing all the used parts value. The program literally took money out of the economy, borrowed from taxes not yet paid, to destroy things, taking money out of the economy, so that people who could afford a new car got a little extra cash to buy one. Then, they mostly purchased import brand products.
@ReasonTV Жыл бұрын
That's in Volume 9! kzbin.info/www/bejne/inPOpIWmZa6ia8k
@robertmoulton2656 Жыл бұрын
They already covered cash 4 clunkers. Jtysk
@MrJeffcoley1 Жыл бұрын
Not only did Cash for Clunkers destroy the used car market ... it also destroyed the salvage parts market. The "clunkers" engines were destroyed by (I kid you not) draining the oil, then filling the crankcase with water and sand and running it until the engine seized. Then the cars were crushed. So many good parts cars lost forever.
@anon_y_mousse Жыл бұрын
@@MrJeffcoley1 That sounds absolutely evil. So I'm not surprised the government was behind it.
@RealityOrganized Жыл бұрын
"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results." -- Milton Friedman, 7 December 1975
@shinnam Жыл бұрын
Yes, and Freman's policies have had huge unintended consequences too.
@penguinjay Жыл бұрын
the results were the real intentions. The "intentions" are just lies to useful idiots who still suck down 100 lies a day. Always been that way, and seemingly always will be. You gotta SUCK 100 Lies a Day if you want to fit in in communist America.
@PhilJonesIII Жыл бұрын
@@shinnam Margret Thatcher was a fan of his so, I'm bound to agree.
@brunhildevalkyrie Жыл бұрын
*Goes on to force a failed economic philosophy onto the world*
@RealityOrganized Жыл бұрын
@@brunhildevalkyrie When and where did Friedman ever "force" anything on anyone, much less the world? "A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." - Milton Friedman, 1962
@RealityOrganized Жыл бұрын
Have you covered this one yet? Late 20th century: US Forest Service did their best to put out all fires, which meant that large stockpiles of fuel gathered on the floor of the forest. So instead of having a small fire every few years, which killed only a few young trees, there was a disastrous fire every few decades which destroyed everything, even the largest trees. Once again, the best way to preserve nature is to leave it alone. But for the people who do things because of their good intentions, they don’t care of the actual results, they just want to feel good about themselves, or tax and spend more dollars.
@timotene6462 Жыл бұрын
My state is notorious for their fires and the destruction of property and human lives that result. I had a friend on the other side who decided to major in forestry. Bro said almost every example of what not to do is provided by my state's policies.
@johnwilliams7922 Жыл бұрын
Actually started in the early 20th century. Even more fuel and waiting for ignition.
@Lozzie74 Жыл бұрын
This happened in Australia, too. We used to do “controlled burns” but the green movement said it was unnatural and messing with nature, so now nature does uncontrolled burns and we end up with fierce bush fires, destroying multiple homes (the town of Yarloop was wiped out).
@mkvv568710 ай бұрын
By the '70's California and the US Forestry had realized the mistake and created policies to mitigate the issue with such things as prescribed burns (purposely setting fires to clear) and controlled burns (letting fires burn themselves out while controlling where they go). Some Californians choose to live out in the wilderness and have the expectation that the Fire Service will attempt put out any fires that approach their homes. This knowledge has been circulating for at least fifty years, which is why everyone who lives near wilderness knows about it.
@NYBrandywineTree3 ай бұрын
Pine trees have serotinous cones. They need intense heat from the fire to open the seeds to propagate new trees. It’s one way the forest regenerates.
@jamesdaniel1376 Жыл бұрын
There was another consequence to the rediculous CAFE standards: in order to meet the government regulations by selling small cars that no one wanted, car manufacturers skewed the market by selling those smaller cars at or below cost, then, in order to make up the losses, they jacked up the price on those larger cars and trucks. Thwn, when it was realized that CAFE wasn't working, the government slapped a gas guzzler tax on the very cars their misguided policies made popular. The most popular lie in history is, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you."
@kauske Жыл бұрын
The auto lobbies meddled with CAFE to have the exact consequence it did too. Auto makers get more from selling a big expensive 'truck' than a cheaper compact. So that one is working exactly as auto lobbyists wanted, but not how environmentalists originally envisioned.
@CaliforniaArchitect Жыл бұрын
In California there is a requirement to have the same number of restroom fixtures in men's and women's public restrooms. The result is that many fast food restaurants and gas stations simply removed some urinals in the men's restroom to equal it out with the women's restroom. The result is that there is a longer line in the men's restoom than there was before, and no improvement for the women's restroom.
@markchapel Жыл бұрын
Good point. But you could have stopped at "In California...."
@RealityOrganized Жыл бұрын
Fall of 2013, the Labor Department increased the minimum wage for fast food workers on federal contracts under the Service Contract Act, varying by region. The rules also require payment of new, additional "health and welfare" fringe benefits at a rate of an additional $3.81 per hour to those employees. Contractor-operated fast food concessions on military installations fall under those regulations. The rules went into effect in March 2014. Four restaurants closed within the next three weeks on Navy installations. Two other restaurants asked to be released from their AAFES contracts. To stay in business, restaurants would have to raise their prices on base. That means service members will go to restaurants off base, which are less expensive. And so the restaurants lose business, and go out of business, and employees lose their jobs.
@SenileOtaku Жыл бұрын
And the more they raise the minimum wage, the more the fast-food replaces actual workers with self-serve kiosks and automation. Which means fewer jobs available, more people on public assistance, and all of the rest of us paying higher taxes and higher prices to make up for it. And my brother won't use self-serve kiosks, since if he is having to do the job himself he should be getting a discount.
@domenik8339 Жыл бұрын
@@SenileOtaku It's pretty rare that you can just take a look at current reality as evidence that you're wrong (instead of speculation or retrospect.) Minimum wage has constantly been raised all over the country and we still almost see self-serve kiosks.
@timotene6462 Жыл бұрын
Fast food restaurant chains can absolutely pay their US workers more than minimum wage without significant cost deficit. They just don't want to. Look to Europe. Many of their workers make well over US minimum wage.
@gothivore27711 ай бұрын
Yeah that’s the exactly the point. You can raise minimum wages as high as you want but it’s never going to make a tiny fraction of a difference because those mega fast food chains will NEVER eat the cost of it they’ll just keep raising prices and firing workers. Now your $15/hr is worth less than the $7.50/hr minimum I was making when I entered the workforce in 2004
@RealityOrganized11 ай бұрын
@@gothivore277 Why would anyone expect a company to “eat the cost”? A company goes into business to make money, not lose money. A company that can’t cover its costs goes out of business. If it goes out of business, it employs no one. If it's a restaurant and goes out of business, it feeds no one.
@weeeeehhhhh Жыл бұрын
The Northern Ireland's "Cash for Ash" scandal, where people were paid for heating buildings, provided they used "renewable energy". People were heating sheds, barns, outhouses, and heating their houses 24/7 using "renewable" wood pellets and making a 10% profit on anything they burnt.
@margaretthemagnificent Жыл бұрын
They did that one previously.
@Random-ld6wg Жыл бұрын
i was considering going to a gun buyback for $300 for long guns a couple of weekends ago. i had a 22 caliber rifle that was worth less than that and i was going to use the money to get a better gun. good thing i didn't go as they ran out of money in 2 hours and would have wasted my time. most of the stuff turned in was junk as well but they still called it a success. in the hospital one of the metrics they decided to track was how many pxs get discharged before 10am( to free up beds for new pxs). you get dinged if you discharge pxs after. the length of stay of the patients increased since the physicians held onto those pxs one more day rather than discharging them after 10 am and lowering their score.
@Tangent360 Жыл бұрын
My favorite bit of CAFE trickery is the PT Cruiser. It's essentially a Dodge Neon with a retro body slapped on top but that too managed to get classified as a truck for CAFE reasons.
@darthhodges Жыл бұрын
3d printers have recently made gun "buybacks" even more ridiculous. One guy showed up to one with 250 3d printed "receivers" expecting to get over $30,000 for them. They only gave him $10k but it was for parts that were not only nonfunctional they wouldn't have existed had the buyback not been held. Additionally all that resin could have been used to make something actually useful instead of being sold to a government who would just throw it all away.
@Roddy556 Жыл бұрын
If you put a 12 gauge shotgun shell in a length of 3/4" pipe and slide that inside a length of 1" pipe fitted with a cap holding a self tapping screw in it you have a very functional shotgun. No printing requiredand they sell the caps and pipe pre threaded for about $2.
@tuseroni6085 Жыл бұрын
@@Roddy556 i don't think those legally qualify as "guns" so they wouldn't buy them. the reason he handed in only the lower receivers is because that is the part actually considered the "gun" by the government...for...some reason.
@jayschafer1760 Жыл бұрын
@@tuseroni6085The people running the buyback might not consider those "guns", but if you try to sell those or commit a crime with them, you can bet your ass the ATF and a local prosecutor will call them "guns".
@cbargainer Жыл бұрын
... "with the best of intentions!"
@Roddy556 Жыл бұрын
@tuseroni6085 I bet you're right they wouldn't give you anything at the buyback but I would also bet you could still face all the criminal firearms related penalties for having one.
@4k8t Жыл бұрын
An economist, like Thomas Sowell, would say don't think of the goal to be attained by the program, think of the incentives that would result from the way the program would work. Have way fewer unintended/unexpected consequences that way.
@MrJeffcoley1 Жыл бұрын
Very clever propaganda calling it a gun "buyback." Implies the state is the one that owned it in the first place, and now they're "buying it back."
@JonathanWrightZA Жыл бұрын
I'd buy up all the second hand 38 specials I can find and go collect my money.
@darrennew8211 Жыл бұрын
Somebody 3D printed a bunch of guns, too, for about $3 in plastic each.
@james.lambert Жыл бұрын
We probably shouldn't allow the government to buy guns. They wouldn't pass a background check
@kovy689 Жыл бұрын
@@darrennew8211Bingoo!
@victormontes7007 Жыл бұрын
@@darrennew8211 I thought it was gonna be about the 3d plastic guns that would blow up in your hands
@Eddmech13 Жыл бұрын
suggestions 1: EPA regulating Diesel engine emissions standards that reduce the efficiency and reliability of those diesel engines (EGR to an extent, DPF, and DEF Injection systems) 2: EPA adding Formaldehyde to the list of "banned ingredients" - limiting the content in products to the 10ppm legal limit, when Formaldehyde naturally occurs at 15ppm 3: NFA ban on firearms suppressors because they sounded scary in 1934, so hunters are effectively barred from being considerate to the people nearby for noise concerns (no, they don't make the gun silent, but they greatly reduce the risk of unintended permanent hearing damage)
@DarkElfDiva6 ай бұрын
My brother bought a Mahindra tractor specifically because it didn't need DEF. Keep your eye on India. They're real up-and-comers in the automotive industry, and beginning to break out into a lot of international markets. I own an Indian motorcycle (not the company called Indian) and it's fantastic.
@javavillain Жыл бұрын
Please, MORE, MORE, MORE of these Unintended Consequences!!!! It's one of the best, most enlightening series EVER to appear on KZbin (or anywhere!)
@joshuareed8243 Жыл бұрын
This series needs to have mandatory viewing in all schools, including colleges and universities.
@legolasfanboy6712 Жыл бұрын
Can you make this a monthly series please?!! This is one of the best single pieces of content on youtube.
@stephenlee5929 Жыл бұрын
Only if governments keep doing stupid things, oh sorry, yep.
@MrWorf53 Жыл бұрын
Many cities in Illinois still waste money on these feel good buybacks, which gun organizations use to finance teaching youth to shoot. The last buyback was in Bloomington, IL a few weeks ago. No criminals have shown up to turn in their guns yet.
@scoutwalters Жыл бұрын
These are my favorite followed closely by music videos. Learning to Fly was pure gold.
@patriot9455 Жыл бұрын
There was a gun buyback in Salt Lake City Utah. A man showed up with a small case with a pair of pistols. He let them go for 25.00 each. One of the people recognized the guns and took them before they were destroyed. They were a pair missing from a museum, there weas a 10,000.00 reward for their safe return. Guess who got a big payday.
@va3svd Жыл бұрын
My family and I love this series. Keep them coming!
@freizeitphase1878 Жыл бұрын
"Not personal stories though" Was absolutely unexpectedly funny, I nearly chocked!
@spankynater4242 Жыл бұрын
OMG, I unexpectedly lost it at that one, also. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
@Samuel43510 Жыл бұрын
I propose we stop calling them unintended consequences and call them ignored consequences
@Woodside235 Жыл бұрын
And a handful of them are completely intentional.
@anon_y_mousse Жыл бұрын
@@Woodside235 Yep, both ignored and intentional. Mostly because the people that propose them are an even mix of evil and stupid. Of course both yield the same result.
@phishENchimps Жыл бұрын
@@Woodside235 Most are. there has to be someone who sees, knows but says, does nothing. the Church Committee displayed what they are capable of.
@TheDuckofDoom. Жыл бұрын
@@phishENchimps In most cases there is someone who says and does something, but they are often discarded by the ignorant majority.
@phishENchimps Жыл бұрын
@@TheDuckofDoom. or those people who point out a fault, but its covered up because someone wants to make money.. a lot of people play ignorant when it comes to benefiting themselves.
@RealityOrganized Жыл бұрын
2021: The government of Sri Lanka enforced back-to-nature organic farming, and banned highly effective synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. By 2022, the result was crop failure, hunger, and poverty, as they no longer had crops to export. The per capita income plummeted. In 2022, the government toppled.
@stevegilbert8486 Жыл бұрын
There was a gun buy back where I used to live. More people showed up in hopes of buying the guns from the people turning in their guns that the number of people actually turning in guns.
@Ciborium Жыл бұрын
My favorite "gun buyback" exploit was the guy who 3D printed thousands of lowers (which, according to the AFT, are what makes a firearm a complete and operational firearm). The 3D printed lowers cost a few dollars each, received probably 10x that in gift cards. I love it when people take the piss from government stupidity.
@anonygent Жыл бұрын
Here's one that's been around a long time: there are tons of companies with exactly 49 employees, because a lot of federal regulations kick in at the 50 employee mark. The result being that a lot of companies that could be growing and employing more people aren't.
@ghz24 Жыл бұрын
Well you have to put the line somewhere and people close to the line will take advantage. Not teally unintended consequences more like human nature.
@joshuaracey796711 ай бұрын
The puns are superb. And the Poppycock story has got to be my favorite yet.
@ThatGuy-cw8gb Жыл бұрын
Love these!! Please make more!!
@toddburgess6792 Жыл бұрын
As a "car guy", I've wondered why the SUV and crossover explosion happened. Now, I know. Uncle Sam-The-Sham.
@kauske Жыл бұрын
The auto lobbies meddled with CAFE to have the exact consequence it did. Auto makers get more from selling a big expensive 'truck' than a cheaper compact. So that one is working exactly as auto lobbyists wanted, but not how environmentalists originally envisioned.
@domenik8339 Жыл бұрын
That and you know, being the current most popular type of vehicle on the road. 😂
@gino147 ай бұрын
@@domenik8339 Chicken, or egg?
@samuelpaulson6416 Жыл бұрын
It’s amazing that you’ve made 13 of these. I goes to show that laws have a butterfly effect, and the end result is very different from the intended outcome.
@leslie6938 Жыл бұрын
Oh wow, there are 12 more of these for me to watch?! Yay! Guess I know which rabbit hole I’m going down tonight. Thanks for mentioning this video is part of a series, I (obviously) was unaware of that!
@MakerInMotion Жыл бұрын
My favorite was the luxury tax on American made yachts that they thought would only effect the rich. The rich just bought their yachts from Europe instead and they put thousands of middle class American boat builders out of work.
@michaelbujaki24629 ай бұрын
@@leslie693815 total now.
@Lozzie74 Жыл бұрын
In the 2000s, the Australian government was concerned about an aging population and declining birth rate. Their concern was funding the subsequent retirement and healthcare of the population, with less people coming into working age than those retiring. They introduced a “baby bonus” cash payout of $3000 per child. Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong? Working people realised that $3000 was far less than the cost of having a child, so this didn’t give them incentive to have more children. Conversely, people on welfare don’t pay for healthcare or child care, and $3000 was good money. Loads of single mothers spent many a moment on their back in the throes of ecstasy, with the added bonus of a $3000 government pay check! Now we have an explosion of kids on welfare who will never join the workforce, adding to the burden of overwhelmed healthcare and pension systems!
@jayak37684 ай бұрын
The humor and satire behind this is amazing.
@diegomadera9700 Жыл бұрын
I have a couple of favorites from great bathroom ideas. #1. The government demanded low flow toilets to replace the old ones so they would use less water. What could possibly go wrong? The next year it was found that more water had been used by each person because the low flow toilets were flushed nearly three times as much to flush the same amount as the original toilets!! LOL!! #2. Hot air blowers we're going to save the environment from wasting trees by replacing paper towels. What could possibly go wrong? Bathroom patrons began to use toilet paper in large wads along with the electric burning blowers, which resulted in more paper usage than paper towels & to the bits of blown off toilet paper covered the floor, often ending up blowing out the doors, & the environment overall got worse.
@notme2227 ай бұрын
Just heard a great one. A restaurant owner in Quebec gave out vouchers for free meals. The government reprimanded him for only printing them in English so he stopped giving them out. (The restaurant is Mama Khan's if you want to look up for yourself.)
@gregoswald7723 Жыл бұрын
In College (1980's) I got a $15 ticket for parking in Staff Parking (Empty parking lot, 5 minutes before the time when free parking was allowed). Next time I needed to run in to a building urgently, middle of the day, I parked on the sidewalk. Parking on sidewalk ticket $10.
@tommywolfe2706 Жыл бұрын
I know that the research, finding visuals, recording the voice work, editing, all of that take time, but I really could go for a video that is a few times longer than this. This stuff is great. I love the concept, I learn something crazy in almost every video.....its amazing. I have gone down the list too. 3 minutes is too short for such good content!
@williamw3501 Жыл бұрын
this is my favorite segment on reason.
@brockjohnson100 Жыл бұрын
Just watched the whole series, love it, but y'all haven't mentioned the subsidizing of crops in America and how they've drastically changed the American diet to worse, increase health issues, and increase the cost and availability of other food.
@OutsideTheTargetDemographic Жыл бұрын
While the narratives are amazing, the narrator's deliveries are BANGERS! 😂😂😂
@RezaQin Жыл бұрын
There was a gun buyback in Houston recently and a guy got paid a ton of money by turning in useless 3D printed parts.
@tomfinn6579 Жыл бұрын
Once again, proving that people respond to incentives which is the first rule of Economics.
@briant7265 Жыл бұрын
A 3/4 ton truck used to have an 8200 lb GVWR. The EPA made a bunch of rules, and had them apply to vehicles under 8500 lb GVWR, so they would apply to 3/4 ton pickups. Manufacturers responded by being 3/4 ton trucks up to to 8600-8700 lbs so the new rules wouldn't apply. It goes nicely with my California water-saving toilet. It uses half a much water per flush, but you have to flush it 3 times.
@kauske Жыл бұрын
To be fair , the auto lobbies meddled with CAFE to have the exact consequence it did. Auto makers get more from selling a big expensive 'truck' than a cheaper compact. So that one is working exactly as auto lobbyists wanted, but not how environmentalists originally envisioned. Dual flush toilets are superior' little flush for #1, big flush for when you need it. Mexico and Europe use them extensively.
@sovietunion7643 Жыл бұрын
the fact that the gun buyback thing basically caused a open market to be created in the middle of the street is the funniest thing ever. why can't we use these types of situations to show how libertarism can work rather than focusing on crypto and bitcoin which most people view as a pump and dump scems nowadays.
@LynyrdSkynyrd.4Ever Жыл бұрын
Do one on the government deciding that opioids are so dangerous that even pain doctors cannot prescribe them without multiple layers of supervision by bureaucrats
@anon_y_mousse Жыл бұрын
Which leads more to the black market, both doctors and patients?
@Liberty4Ever Жыл бұрын
FDA gave the green light to Purdue Pharma to sell the crap out of OxyContin which kick started the opioid epidemic. The crackdown on legitimate opiate prescription (state and federal) is the result, so the addicts were then forced to buy heroin, so government's unintended consequences created a generation of heroin addicts. The government paid Afghan farmers to burn their poppy fields and had similar attempts to eliminate the supply, so the Chinese now supply the Mexican drug cartels with far more potent and less expensive fentanyl. As is often the case, we see the government solutions to government's unintended consequences having even worse unintended consequences, nested 3 or 4 layers deep. Government - If you don't like our problems, wait until you see our solutions.
@nojuanatall3281 Жыл бұрын
The Perdue pharma case and oxytocin. They were able to declare bankruptcy to cherry pick a judge. The victim's families got squat while the state made out like a bandit. It's actually a really crazy example of medicine and the state colluding to create addicts and blatantly harm the public.
@ghz24 Жыл бұрын
Yet codiene is over the counter in Canada with no major issues.
@scotty3114 Жыл бұрын
I love this series! If only we could make Congress Critters watch it... but they proably wouldn't understand the point!
@Charles-wv8yx Жыл бұрын
I Love this. Maybe you could discuss how government practices contributed to the dust bowl, or how mothers complaining about superhero cartoons being too violent led to Saterday morning cartoons being replace with football, which is obviously not violent at all.
@RedRyan Жыл бұрын
I really love that you guys are venturing into more war and events with extremely catastrophic consequences. Great video today
@margaretthemagnificent Жыл бұрын
How about the time the EPA kept doing invasive checks on closed down mines and set off a HUGE cadmium spill in Colorado. They didn’t even warn the locals, they just woke up to their river being yellow and toxic.
@ArloPignotti Жыл бұрын
These all should be required watching before anyone's allowed to vote. ...but I suppose that would have unintended consequences too. lol
@geobloxmodels1186 Жыл бұрын
Hey, Arlo, I think I know you! I was about to leave this comment 'Sounds like a great basis for a parody skit'. Then, I noticed your name. Once upon a time, a very long time ago, I was a coleader of ACA and the editor of the newsletter. If you are the same Arlo, it makes for a weird world. I was in HEB today getting beer for my girlfriend and went to check out the religious candles. We burn them at dinner to make left overs more romantic. I was looking for an unusual saint, but they just had the regulars. So, I settled on one with Chuy, the Big Enchilada himself. I remember the time you showed us your collection of such stuff. Fun times.
@YouaNumbahOneRacist Жыл бұрын
For no particular reason, I really hope it *is* the same guy.
@ArloPignotti Жыл бұрын
@@geobloxmodels1186Yes, that's me! I tried to reply to you earlier but was removed. Strange.
@silverjohn6037 Жыл бұрын
There's an old British sitcom called Yes Minister then renamed Yes Prime Minister. If you've never seen it check it out. It was talking about this sort of nonsense back in 1980-84.
@wolfgangfegelein2450 Жыл бұрын
It's not related to government policies, but I think telling kids that "everyone is special" and that they could be "anything you want to be when you grow up" definitely count. Barney & Friends and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks Жыл бұрын
They aren't wrong though... It's a highly individualist perspective to say peeps are unique. And generally if someone puts their minds to things they can do pretty much anything in theory. However there are limitations and just telling someone they can do anything is hogwash. You need to add the preffix, with a great amount of work and dedication...
@neilmanhard1341 Жыл бұрын
This policy, I believe, originates from Dr Spock's "Baby Book". He emphasized only encouragement so not to harm their "self-esteem" etc...
@stevenscott2136 Жыл бұрын
And then they immediately told us we actually COULDN'T be superheros, starship captains, wizards, pro athletes, or any of the other cool jobs.
@louisryan5815 Жыл бұрын
@@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks but that's not necessarily true, either
@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks Жыл бұрын
@@louisryan5815 technically if you could find a way for magic to work and exist, technically you could be a witch or wizard Harry. But assuming we are grounded by reality... There are always limitations. If one had an iq of 10... They probably won't be able to do anything. Even if they worked really hard at it. But why I say they technically aren't wrong is because of the plurality of possibility. Most people can be most things given they work hard enough to achieve it. The limitations of the few technically does not limit the statement generally. As edge cases do exist well... Yes, it's nit entirely correct, but they aren't wrong either. There's a massive Asterix on that statement.
@superman9772 Жыл бұрын
yep... my first truck was a surplus 1/4 ton military truck (aka willys jeep) got it for $100 back when i was 12 (i worked all summer for it and hid it from my folks)...and the last time i went "shopping for a truck" all i could find was $100,000 cup holders with built in computers (aka ford f150)
@spankynater4242 Жыл бұрын
I think you left this comment in the wrong video. How does it relate?
@carbonking53 Жыл бұрын
Never underestimate the government's abilities to fk things up.
@Arfonfree Жыл бұрын
The Drug War: lets make drugs illegal -> make drugs more expensive -> increase incentives to deal in illegal drugs.
@navchinna Жыл бұрын
Yeah the war on drugs really backfired, huh.
@bobbij3030 Жыл бұрын
Love the show... LOVE IT! The only UC I can think of, which was intended, was when King George the Stupid, a.k.a. Bushy II decided to tell cotton growers to grow less cotton, the price went up for everything made of cotton, they made it rich, but people like myself, especially people like myself - meaning quilters - could ill afford to pay the price of material any longer, so we stopped buying fabric. They're eating that one.
@stormisuedonym4599 Жыл бұрын
You're not going to find a lot of sympathy for crying about the removal of farm subsidies here. Sorry you had to pay closer to the true cost of the fabric for your hobby instead of foisting it off onto the taxpayer, I guess.
@ekimp252 Жыл бұрын
“And after all we’ve done for them” 😂😂😂
@tuongpham7609 Жыл бұрын
Housing bubble of 2008. Good intentions: Making home purchases available to everyone, even those that can't afford it. Bad results: no one could pay their mortgage and the housing market crashed as 10 million people were put into financial ruin.
@spudsdavenport Жыл бұрын
Was that the AMERICAN DREAM ACT of 1993[or '96]?
@stormisuedonym4599 Жыл бұрын
And they fucking deserved it, getting mortgages they knew they couldn't afford and had to demand by playing the "muh racism" card.
@StudioUAC Жыл бұрын
lmao!
@DarkElfDiva6 ай бұрын
LMAO, 'good intentions.'
@AntiNeoFascist Жыл бұрын
"And after all we've done for them." lmao ... I can't.
@FreelanceDev4life Жыл бұрын
Oh, and the "light truck" means your vehicle is technically worth more - which means you pay more property tax on it
@RealityOrganized Жыл бұрын
2015: The Seattle city council decided to raise the minimum wage to $15/ hour. Seattle’s restaurants closed at an alarming rate.
@theironmanx428 Жыл бұрын
Sooo glad they are keeping this going.
@grantmillard8387 Жыл бұрын
Just watched through the entire series. Love it SO much. Great to see how the voiceovers and video design have evolved. Subscribed!
@Deathnotefan97 Жыл бұрын
I don’t think it was the same gun buyback mentioned in this video, but there was one guy who literally made his own firearms from plants of wood and other materials that could be cheaply purchased from any home improvement store Because they were capable of firing (only once) they technically counted as firearms and he made bank
@leeroy8936 Жыл бұрын
Buddy of mine mafe a handfull of guns from hardware store parts, dremmeled serial numbers into them and sold them to the cops. Then used the money to buy guns from dudes in line.
@RealityOrganized Жыл бұрын
2016: As minimum wage was raised, Wendy’s replaced employees with self-service kiosks.
@Majima_Nowhere Жыл бұрын
McDonald's employees were all about "Fight for 15" and now a Big Mac combo meal costs 10 bucks. Who could have _possibly_ seen this coming?
@RealityOrganized Жыл бұрын
@@Majima_Nowhere ..."What could possibly go wrong?" You nailed it, great example.
@hackman669 Жыл бұрын
Stupid feds.
@StudioUAC Жыл бұрын
but in reality, who would want to work in fast food?
@teamcybr837511 ай бұрын
@@Majima_NowhereIn Norway, McDonald's workers get $22 per hour, paid time off, Healthcare, and a pension. And their big macs cost less than ours! Less than $5! The higher prices are just corporate greed!
@xoso599 Жыл бұрын
Here's an Unintended Consequence: The government of Alberta wanting to promote the installation of home solar generation created a new program offering extensive subsidies for new installations. Announced early to build hype and allow installers and home owners to plan the installation of the new systems to best take advantage of the huge subsidies... 11 months in the future. Solar installers had a massive downturn in orders and active installations as everyone put off buying a new system that wouldn't qualify for the subsidy, killing the business of many installers that couldn't survive for almost a year without any work.
@RealityOrganized Жыл бұрын
2019: Uber took drivers off the app because of NYC’s new minimum wage law.
@oblii5590 Жыл бұрын
Very informative series, keep them coming !
@MrWayneJohn111 ай бұрын
These episodes just prove that there's nothing the government can't f##k up.
@steprockmedia Жыл бұрын
They've LITERALLY done this exact same thing before with the exact same results. Previously, it was a bounty for rattlesnakes, which resulted in tons of rattlers being bred and then released when the program was cancelled. Don't ask government to learn. (*It looks like you covered the snakes one last year, of course!)
@Hyper_Drud10 ай бұрын
Wasn’t it cobras?
@aaronkcmo Жыл бұрын
please do the wooden stairways of Ketchikan Alaska. the law states that if a wooden staircase only goes to one residence then that residence is responsible for maintaining the staircase. if, however, more than one residence is serviced by the staircase it's the responsibility of the city to maintain it. consequently there are no wooden staircases in the city that lead to only one residence.
@DavidMay-cc1xo3 ай бұрын
For the Oakland gun buy back, I wonder how much standing in line is worth to people. I don't know how long the lines were, but I'm sure some people would be happy with $100 or $200 cash right away rather than stand in line, even if you gave them $225. Then you stand in line with all the guns and get $250 each.
@alexbarker975 Жыл бұрын
This reminds me of Terry Pratchett talking about the rat bounty in am infested city. His answer was tax the rat farms, and I've never come across a better one.
@nikolas-1145 Жыл бұрын
it's almost as if big government IS the problem, and giving more power to the most powerful people possible is A PART OF THE PROBLEM.
@kevinh5212 Жыл бұрын
This channel's gonna blow up just wait. Great content.
@rwcraver Жыл бұрын
Criminals don't turn in their firearms; the real 'unintended' consequence was that law abiding individuals are now at greater risk from criminals than before.
@spankynater4242 Жыл бұрын
Not really. People didn't turn in their working firearms.
@saiga12forme88 Жыл бұрын
I absolutely love this series.
@crasher88 Жыл бұрын
To add onto the fiasco about burning the popey field in Afghanistan. This occurred multiple times while American was in control of Afghanistan. One time an American base commander wanted all of the popey fields around his base gone so he paid the locals to burn it. Turns out that field was owned and operated by a very big international drug company that used the popey to make legitimate pharmaceutical grade drugs.
@hackman669 Жыл бұрын
What a baboon 😅
@Kpsla Жыл бұрын
Perverse incentive, more commonly known as the Cobra Effect, is a phenomenon in which action to prevent an undesirable outcome inadvertently encourages or rewards said outcome instead. It received it's common name when British India placed a bounty on cobra heads to reduce their population. Economically savvy Indians instead bred cobra's and turned them in for money. Realizing the cruelty, the incentive was quickly outlawed. The entrepreneurs cobra farms suddenly had no value, and so the cobra's were released into the wild, worsening the cobra population problem.
@syruptishuss Жыл бұрын
Guns, drugs, and trucks! This is why we follow the Reason channel.
@joecontreras5068 Жыл бұрын
One video and I’m sold - I love it !
@RealityOrganized Жыл бұрын
2019: In response to rising minimum wages, Whole Foods reduced employees’ hours. Companies don’t do this out of spite. They do this out of the laws of economics, because the purpose of a company is to make money; the purpose is not to provide people jobs.
@jimmydesouza4375 Жыл бұрын
A good potential is the British Breed Specific Legislation laws that were passed in the 90's, since for some inexplicable reason they've just recently enacted another set with basically the same problems. Basic rundown is that because Pitbulls are dangerous and they were causing large rates of attacks and hospitalisations the British government decided to ban pitbulls, except they only banned 3 out of the 4 pitbull breeds and kept staffordshire bull terriers legal and they left the determination for what exactly a dogs breed is up to a selection of people with no oversight or repercussions for false reporting. This meant that, because the British like dogs and the idea of a breed being illegal is met with kneejerk negative reactions, every pitbull started to be classed as a Staff. Additionally because the laws got a lot of media coverage people then thought it was "noble" to get their hands on pitbulls to "save" them, which led to more pitbulls being bred and sold and Staffs becoming the most common breed in the country (going by microchipping figures). This then led to a greater than 100% increase in dog attack hospitalisations within 8 years, an increase which carried on happening and is part of the next round of breed laws.
@KolaNutKing9 ай бұрын
Please do one on sub-prime mortgages during the early 2000s, and how it lead to the Great Recession if 2008
@jaewok5G Жыл бұрын
I like the new disclaimer "no personal stuff" XD
@orbitty1354 Жыл бұрын
This channel, where have you been all my life. 😂❤
@TURK_182 Жыл бұрын
They banned single use plastic grocery bags so now they have thick plastic bags that are reusable, but they're just using more plastic
@Roddy556 Жыл бұрын
It's hard to reuse them when you never bring them back. I just see it as bags costing a lot more now.
@kauske Жыл бұрын
I have a set of reusable bags from 2008, they only just started to bite the dust. They saved more than their weight in plastic.
@Freelix2000 Жыл бұрын
The gun buyback program is wild to me. What did they think was going to happen? Even if it wasn't abused by people with junk guns or homemade guns made just to sell to the cops, did they think that drug dealers were going to sell their sidearms, hitmen were going to sell their tools, and would-be mass shooters were going to choose life for $250? The best case scenario would have been very few gun sales and still no impact on gun violence
@anonygent Жыл бұрын
Only intentions matter to liberals, not results. If liberals paid attention to results, they would quickly become conservatives.