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Much of comedy is subverting expectations. We are so accustomed to "Sounds like a great idea! With the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong?" as part of these segments that the one time that we do not get it, but instead receive "Let's be honest, we all know where this is going", we laugh at the incongruity. This type of comedy is best described by the tropes "Murder, Rape, Arson, Jaywalking!" ( my favorite example being the long list of charges against Captain Stern that ends ' and one moving violation' from "Heavy Metal") and "The Rule of Three"
Maryland recently passed a law that prevented minors under the age of 13 from being prosecuted. Auto thefts in Baltimore County are up 175% in a year with many of the drivers under the age of 13, obviously lacking any experience and driving at high speeds to escape. Source: WBFF Fox 45 Baltimore, a youtube video posted 20 Sept 2023 titled "Juvenile reform laws in Maryland blamed for surge in auto theft by underage offenders".
All true. Same issue in DC until Mayor Bowser reversed the law very recently. Along with that was the law that kids 13-17 were let out of jail at 21 regardless of the crime. Yup, drugs, murder, you name it.
There was a similar issue with the introduction of the Euro currency in Europe in 1999. The issue was with EU countries that didn't use the Euro but had to accept it. They had to have a certain exchange rate. At the beginning there was an issue with working out the correct exchange rate with currencies such as the UK Pound. I remember a story on the news about a kid who went into a UK dept store and bought something with Euros but got change in UK Pounds and ended up getting more money in change in UK pounds than he'd spent in Euros. So he went back like 5 times in one day and bought more stuff until the store realised and suspended Euro transactions until the issue was sorted.
How about the pay freeze that the government instituted during WW2? Which led to employers offering health insurance to attract the very limited supply of workers. Which led to the entire employer insurance market we know today and all of the issues with health care that it has caused.
Let's not forget putting doctors in charge of the supply of new doctors. They naturally wanted to keep their inflated salaries by artificially restricting how many we produce every year, until we legitimately began to face shortages.
Exactly. Same with the Bar Association for lawyers. Virtually all vocational licensing (and unions) are designed to control labor supply.@@WilliamCWayne
Our health system may be terrible, but just in different ways than other advanced countries. In Canada, a disabled veteran and paralympian needed a stair lift for her home. After FOUR YEARS of runaround, she was complaining to a rep about the hardship she was enduring. Rather than, you know, expediting the process, the rep offered her an assisted suicide.
I love that one of the few true "infinite money glitches" finally made it into this series. Selling legal tender coins for face value, accepting credit cards as payment for doing so, not even charging shipping? What can possibly go wrong?
Haha, a true, real-world 'I.M.G.' . This current construct (especially the cognition-control-cartels running its economic policies!) is a kick, ain't it? 😆 Cheers, mate.
To top it off, our incompetent government was paying a lot of money to store those unwanted coins. The root cause were the dummies who pushed the coins in the first place.
Can someone please explain the problem here for me, except for the free shipping? That credit card companies give bonuses is a separate problem, but the buyers must still eventually pay for what they buy. Right?
@@ChrisisisB The intention of the government was to get more coins into circulation in general. However, people would just buy coins to get the credit card rewards that come with purchases, then immediately take those coins to the bank and deposit them, thus, never actually entering circulation. Quite frankly, I’m jealous that I didn’t think of that at the time.😂
The video game Pokemon actually contains a reference to the invasive mongoose story. In the region known as Alola, based on Hawaii, there are these invasive Rattata that were ruining the ecosystem. To combat this a Pokemon known as Yungoos was introduced. The problem is the Alola Rattata are dark types and they're only active at night while Yungood is only active during the day but both are extremely common and it's mentioned in the lore that they're ruining the region's ecosystem.
I've seen every single episode of "Unintended Consequences", and this was your best. The breaking of the narration was hilarious. "Let's be honest, we all know where this is going." Comedy gold.
1) Stop arresting thieves and shoplifters 2) Stores get robbed blind and trashed 3) Stores go bankrupt and close 4) Blame mean stores for creating "food deserts"
Not only have everyone depend on the goverment, but also have a voting class knowing they have to vote democrat to not get arrested and have the rich leave who perhaps can spread the mind virus of being a lib to other, more prosperous states. Why hasn't this law been challenged on fourth amendment grounds?
Destabilize society so much that the voters beg the government to "do something!" OK, they will. "This is how freedom dies... with thunderous applause." -one of the Star Wars prequels, after Palpatine promotes himself to emperor, for the good of the people.
Introducing the cobras is a great idea! Some might say you've just replaced one problem with another, but once the mongooses are taken care of, you can just start paying people who bring in dead cobras....
Mongoose are notoriously difficult for cobras to kill. But I sacrificed reality to make a callback joke to a previous installment of Great Moments in Unintended Consequences.
"Oh let's be honest, we all know where this is going". When the stupid is so strong not even the narrator can keep from facepalming the logic/decision trees they're reading off.
If I recall correctly, a few years back, Nebraska passed a law allowing no penalty child abandonment at hospitals. The idea was supposed to protect unwanted babies, but since they didn’t specify an age, some folk grabbed the opportunity to abandon difficult teens.
Here’s some great moments in unintended consequences around guns: the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and the 1990 Gun Free School Zones Act. The ‘94 Ban was circumvented by gun manufacturers modifying existing guns to fit the definition of what an “assault weapon” was. It also ignored the fact that more homicides are done with handguns. The ‘90 Gun Free Schools act just made schools a primary target for mass shooters. You could also do the Great Australian Emu War!
@@steamnamebbderinvade__they couldn't. The modifications brought the firearms into compliance with the law. The law was poorly written. As are all such infringements.
Hilarious as usual, and yet a depressingly sad commentary. And the more I hear about the coin thing, I'm disappointed in myself for not joining in on the fun.
@@Arshenborne Nah, the thing is if we introduce cobras, we can then talk about 'Der Kobra Effekt'...... which just sounds cool. Plus if you think about it cobras always level the playing field, because what ever else goes on, no one wants to be bitten.
congress says "bank fees are to high" and passes laws to restrict them. no more free checking accounts. in fact- no more free anything! banks begin charging the most they can for every service.
1:52 That is an Indian 2000 rupees Bill, The government introduced the note as part of a demonetization exercise to reduce corruption, black money, and counterfeit currency. Only to take it back a few years after. Deserves its own segment in this series.
Here's one for you: How about the efforts to get digital television to be the standard? The government not only mandated broadcasters to switch to digital, they also demanded that they stop broadcasting in analog entirely. Sounds like a great idea! What could possible go wrong? Well it turns out that digital broadcasts give you a fantastic image if you're within so-many miles of the broadcast source, but after that it suddenly drops and becomes unwatchable, meanwhile analog television at such ranges may be very poor and staticy, but at least gives you something. A poor, grainy image is actually something, compared to the image and sound completely stopping for an entire second, making dialogue and action completely imperceptable. And anyone who lives in a building that blocks reception also loses signal quality. In other words, the people who live in budget-constraining conditions that lead them to actually use over-the-air television become less capable of actually watching television. If you use this one, you should apply a visual filter to the video for the first half that makes it look like a poor analog antenna signal, and then when you show "what could possibly go wrong" you switch to a marvelously clear HD image that constantly jitters and stops and the audio cuts out without ever being able to deliver a full sentence clause, so no one can understand what you are saying.
I've got a suggestion for a future episode: Oregon votes to RE-criminalize dangerous drugs. The problem "lots of people were going to jail for small amounts of heroin, meth and other narcotics." The solution, make all drugs legal!" A Great Idea, With the Best of Intentions. What could possibly go wrong?" Well, dramatically increased crime (because, you know, drugs cost money) and trying to source and consume cheap/dangerous drugs resulted the "deadliest overdose crisis in US history" (AP, 3/3/24, Salem, OR)
Great idea. Some US states banned single use plastic bags. The reusable ones used 6x more plastic snd on avg only got used 3 times before being thrown out. Result was increase plastic consumption, emissions, and now stores no longer have to give bags away free making bags a new revenue stream for them
Here's what I don't get about the plastic bag bans in general. They want people to start using more of those fabric bags. But most fabric bags are synthetic these days, and almost ALL of them have some type of screen printing on them. Screen printing uses a lot of water, which isn't reclaimed, and normal screen print inks are made out of pure plastic. Then the print flakes off and you throw away the bag when it rips. Oops, there's a big problem coming.
How about covering the 2007 incandescent light bulb ban? (Okay, it was a ban on manufacturing, not on sales.) The problem? Incandescent light bulbs put out most of their energy as heat, leading to drains on electricity. Except... for one thing, there were a lot of secondary uses that wanted the heat, such as for reptile terrariums (where a bulb could also function as a daytime heater) and for citrus groves (where incandescent strings of Christmas lights can save a crop in the event of a hard freeze.) There was also the fact that LED bulbs were not available at the time for home use purposes, except for a few that were $20-$40 and only came in "cool white" mode. So what was available? Compact fluorescent bulbs, those coiled weirdos, which were billed as lasting longer. Well... sometimes. Certainly not in households with toddlers, as I can tell from experience. They also had a subtle flicker to the electrical cycle rate, which means they could induce migraines in certain people (whee), didn't work in all fixtures, and were a fire risk. They also cost about $6 per bulb, where a 60W incandescent cost 60¢. Did I forget to mention that because of the chemicals inside the bulb, they had to be disposed of as hazardous waste? Especially if one broke? Mind you, I love the current crop of LED bulbs. But a ban... well. You know the drill.
Goose, geese: Mongoose, mongeese. Join my crusade to make the plurals of moose & house to be "meese" and "hice!" [Also, incorporating "shoop" as the singular of "sheep..."]
The first one about Coins for Cash is also stupid since the coin is as much value as the bills and credits. but the transportation and creation cost more - so it is an "exponential loss"!
@@SeraphsWitness It's simple. The politicians were pandering to women. "The United States Mint introduced the Susan B. Anthony Dollar in 1979." I was there and nobody liked the coin and there was a problem using it in vending machines. They're gone now.
It also had the effect of popularizing CB radios, which, at the time greatly increased the ability to evade speed traps, resulting in traffic on the less traveled Interstate Highways cruising at 90+. Ah, the memories.
Fun Fact: The import & release of feral mongoose to Hawaii is the inspiration behind the Pokémon, Yungoos & Gumshoos (the one that looks like Trump…though they swear that was unintentional), as well as the Alolan variant of Rattata/Raitcate, as Yungoos & Gumshoos are only available during the day & Alolan Rattata & Raitcate are only available at night.
How about "Cash for Clunkers" and how it ended up destroying thousands of perfectly useable cars, driving up the price of used cars and making them unaffordable for low income Americans.
Exactly . And if your car was too new or ran great, they told you to open the oil plug and run the engine until it seized. Then it qualified for the failed program. And the used car industry had a very bad couple years because of it.
The problem: low graduation rates at Los Angeles high schools. The solution: Incentivize school leaders to solve the problem. What could possibly go wrong? It turns out that the easiest way to graduate more kids is to simply give everyone diplomas. Teachers are instructed in "equity grading" which means kids don't have to do assignments, and extra administrative tasks are required before teachers are allowed to give an F or D grade. Soon, students notice that nothing bad happens when they stop going to class. Now there are more kids graduating from many Los Angeles high schools than there are attending, and half the kids who do show up in the morning are on their phones enough to empty the battery before they go home six hours later.
Hilariously enough, "organic" food is neither better for the environment nor healthier. It turns out there are lots of naturally occurring pesticides that meet the definition of organic, but they are worse for people. Also, since you are growing less food than you would be with synthetic pesticides on the same amount of land, it means you need to clearcut more forests for farmland to grow the same amount of food as before. This also requires more water. If my grocery store has two options, one labeled "organic" and one without the label, I always pick the non-organic food.
New York State is encouraging preparedness, so they gave us a one hour lecture on preparedness, including electronics which included an admonition to check our battery dates. They gave us backpacks to get us started on our own grab-and-go packs. The pack included two D cells and a flashlight. Sounds like a great idea! With the best of intentions! The expiration date on the batteries was 2019, and one had already leaked.
US department of agricultures introduction of the Asian lady beetle should be on your list. Nasty little invasive bugs that were brought to the US on purpose
@@aqswd6825 Have you not lived in the US for the last 15 years and have no experience with OBAMACARE? Even the Supreme Court called it a TAX, not a Volunteer Program where "You could keep your doctor or coverage"? HIS lies, not anyone elses.
@@aqswd6825 It's not really surprising you never heard of the _18_ Obama Admin scandals, since they were largely ignored by the Press, despite being the self-proclaimed "most transparent administration in history"...
Idaho too, lots of slaughtered cattle and other domestic animals. My source myself. I have seen the critters bodies only wolves and man can kill on that scale.
@@kennethlindahl9206there were some positives as well though, the stronger ecosystem in Yellowstone being a big one for some people. Its a much more nuanced situation than most of the examples given in the video.
Humans never get tired of introducing new problems to fight problems they caused. It's like people heard the story of the old lady who swallowed a fly and thought "hang on a second, she's got a point!" I think it's only worked out one time in all of history, and that was introducing ladybugs to control aphids in the Americas.
You know what? All other things aside, the mongoose has prevented invasive species of snake ( eg. The brown tree snake) from successfully finding purchase on the islands of Hawaii. Which otherwise would have themselves neatly removed tons of native species. Sometimes it’s hard to know how a thing will turn out.
Here's a suggestion: The US government promotes green vehicles by destroying the fossil fuel industry before EVs were a viable option. What could possibly go wrong? (see also, firefighter training for toxic lithium battery fires.)
Um, how about then the Gubermint sets up a $7 billion dollar program to build the electrical support system across the country. Now, 2 years later there is no money left in the program and only built 8 charging stations; most of them in California, that has brownouts and blackouts. . And when it's very cold, the chargers are slower than the automatic heaters in those cars that use more energy warming the car than the charger car charge into it.
In Okinawa (Japan) they imported mongooses to cut down on poisenous Habu (snakes) in sugar cane fields. The snakes come out at night. The mongooses roam about in daylight. Now Okinawa had two (2) pests in their sugar cane fields. They never see each other.
Great idea: change school lunches to include more veggies and fruits, and less dairy, meat, and grain, so kids will eat healthier. Unintended consequence: many kids who buy school lunch don't want 5 types of veggies/fruits without grains, meat, or dairy, so a LOT of fruits and vegetables were tossed in the trash, and kids ended up not eating enough.
"The year 'insert year here'. The problem? 'insert problem here'. The solution 'insert solution here' sounds like a great idea! With the best of intensions. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"
During the Carter Administration, in 1979 NHTSA under Joan Claybrook designed and built a backwards steering motorcycle. Front wheel drive. Steering via the rear wheel. They thought it would be safer. Good intentions, what could possible go wrong?
It was safer because nobody could ride it. Longest ride, by a professional motorcycle racer was 30 feet. Also the gov't paid someone $250,000 to build it. They paid someone $20,000 and pocketed $230,000. They paid a mechanic $2000 and pocketed $18,000. He made it up out of odds and ends of used parts and pocketed $1800.
Hilarious that the US Mint didn't understand that the product they were selling as a collectible item is 100% fungible currency, and selling it at face value while eating the merchant fees for credit card processing creates a small exploitable arbitrage. Giving credit card airline mileage points to people who understand economics is the least bad federal government spending in recent memory.
The ASIN Law (1995) of the Philippines required local salt producers to add iodine to their salt to eliminate iodine deficiency but it turns out it almost kills the salt making industry of the philippines and now the nation imports most of its salt from other countries despite being surrounded by oceans
They're also more durable, that would save the government money in the long run. As long as they can get people to do it. Canada solved this problem of getting rid of their $1 and $2 bills and replacing them with coins... by not giving people a choice. Give people a choice and they will always do what they believe is the easier thing.
@@troodon1096 Replacing bills with pocket weights probably WOULD save the U.S. government some money in the long run IF they could get American men to carry MAN PURSES for carrying them like all you Canuck men. Maybe that's the higher purpose of this crazy trans movement. Relax, I'm just joking around and I don't really mean any disrespect
Sort of like the US metric program in the 1970's. "The problem: Americans don't want to learn a new system of measurement, even though the old one works fine! The solution: spend millions emphasizing the mathematical complexities of converting back and forth between systems!" Then Americans proved perfectly happy with cocaine in kilos, drinks in 2-liter bottles, cars with 5.0-liter engines, 9mm bullets, and 10-K runs. They just didn't want to do the conversion math.
The real problem is that "dollars" USED to be ~27 grams of 90% silver, worth about twenty -dollars- pieces of paper today. A hundred years ago nobody complained about carrying around three silver dollars, because they'd buy you groceries for a week.
Mongoosen! Nice nod to Brian Regan there! Maybe if we feed them two boxen of donuts, they won’t eat the endangered species anymore! Sounds like a great idea!
That might not qualify. The theme of the series is "thought this would help but it actually hurt", while I don't think anyone actually intended the defunding to accomplish anything, other than score points for some politicians with certain demographics.
The problem of not having an intelligence or common sense litmus test for people in charge of making impactful decisions. There would be unlimited content for this series out of government actions and response.
Thank you for doing the Mongoose story. I lived there many years and saw the damage they cause. Also the non native pigs, cocci frogs mosquitoes, basically any annoying thing is non native.
You could make an entire series about JUST intentionally introduced species and the problems they've caused. Its one of those things that people just keep trying and it never, ever, even once, went well. We have hundreds of years of examples at this point.
When Canada switched over from $1 bills to $1 coins. The Canadian mint simply stopped printing new $1 bills. As the $1 bills currently in circulation wore out and got damaged, they were slowly replaced. As the surviving $1 bills became rarer. Collectors started scooping them up.
*CORRECTION: We accidentally used an image of an Indian rupee instead of the Sri Lankan rupee.
Sounds like a great idea! With the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong?!
Hopefully you won't suffer any unintended consequences for doing so.
What are you, Harvard?
Clearly, you should have used a Zelda rupee.
oh my..😊
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Perhaps, but with a lot being so glaringly obvious can we really say it's unintended?
"Let's be honest we all know where this is going"
I don't know why, but this is the bit that led to the uncontrollable laughter.
Sounds like unintended consequences
Same here. Loud enough that the person in the office next to mine knocked on my door and asked if I was okay.
Much of comedy is subverting expectations. We are so accustomed to "Sounds like a great idea! With the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong?" as part of these segments that the one time that we do not get it, but instead receive "Let's be honest, we all know where this is going", we laugh at the incongruity.
This type of comedy is best described by the tropes "Murder, Rape, Arson, Jaywalking!" ( my favorite example being the long list of charges against Captain Stern that ends ' and one moving violation' from "Heavy Metal") and "The Rule of Three"
Agreed, and the "...now hear me out...cobras!" part had me guffawing. This guy's delivery (and his cohort at Reason) have perfect timing and hilarity.
"I don't do comedy; I just observe the government and report the facts."
-Will Rogers
Maryland recently passed a law that prevented minors under the age of 13 from being prosecuted. Auto thefts in Baltimore County are up 175% in a year with many of the drivers under the age of 13, obviously lacking any experience and driving at high speeds to escape. Source: WBFF Fox 45 Baltimore, a youtube video posted 20 Sept 2023 titled "Juvenile reform laws in Maryland blamed for surge in auto theft by underage offenders".
And (just logic) it isn't that the under 13 crowd is "just taking advantage". It's older criminals and gangs exploiting the kids to exploit the law.
You cited your source - QUICK, GO APPLY TO HARVARD!
All true. Same issue in DC until Mayor Bowser reversed the law very recently. Along with that was the law that kids 13-17 were let out of jail at 21 regardless of the crime. Yup, drugs, murder, you name it.
@@matthewwallace9280 no, you only do that when you claim its your own source. 😂
@@googleuser3760 🤣🤣🤣
"... and cite your sources! What are we, Harvard?" was the best part of the entire video.
Yes, yes it was.
Harvard plagiarizes.
I was one of the participants in the credit card one. The bank tellers start to cry when you walk into the bank after a while
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There was a similar issue with the introduction of the Euro currency in Europe in 1999. The issue was with EU countries that didn't use the Euro but had to accept it. They had to have a certain exchange rate. At the beginning there was an issue with working out the correct exchange rate with currencies such as the UK Pound. I remember a story on the news about a kid who went into a UK dept store and bought something with Euros but got change in UK Pounds and ended up getting more money in change in UK pounds than he'd spent in Euros. So he went back like 5 times in one day and bought more stuff until the store realised and suspended Euro transactions until the issue was sorted.
"What are we, Harvard?" 😆
I was dying on that bit
Ohhhhh 🔥
Pairs great with the cobra allusion.
That was savage. I love it.
Yes! Haha, that was terrific. Humor is the bane of the Cognition-Control Cartels. Warm winds and keep on. ❤🔥
How about the pay freeze that the government instituted during WW2? Which led to employers offering health insurance to attract the very limited supply of workers. Which led to the entire employer insurance market we know today and all of the issues with health care that it has caused.
Yeaaaaap that's a really good one.
Let's not forget putting doctors in charge of the supply of new doctors. They naturally wanted to keep their inflated salaries by artificially restricting how many we produce every year, until we legitimately began to face shortages.
Exactly. Same with the Bar Association for lawyers. Virtually all vocational licensing (and unions) are designed to control labor supply.@@WilliamCWayne
Our health system may be terrible, but just in different ways than other advanced countries.
In Canada, a disabled veteran and paralympian needed a stair lift for her home. After FOUR YEARS of runaround, she was complaining to a rep about the hardship she was enduring. Rather than, you know, expediting the process, the rep offered her an assisted suicide.
I wouldn't even say terrible. Just expensive. We have some of the best care in the world.@@briant7265
I love that one of the few true "infinite money glitches" finally made it into this series. Selling legal tender coins for face value, accepting credit cards as payment for doing so, not even charging shipping? What can possibly go wrong?
Haha, a true, real-world 'I.M.G.' . This current construct (especially the cognition-control-cartels running its economic policies!) is a kick, ain't it? 😆 Cheers, mate.
To top it off, our incompetent government was paying a lot of money to store those unwanted coins. The root cause were the dummies who pushed the coins in the first place.
It actually sounds like one of Treasury's better ideas. Pretty much everything they do could be in this series.
Can someone please explain the problem here for me, except for the free shipping?
That credit card companies give bonuses is a separate problem, but the buyers must still eventually pay for what they buy. Right?
@@ChrisisisB The intention of the government was to get more coins into circulation in general. However, people would just buy coins to get the credit card rewards that come with purchases, then immediately take those coins to the bank and deposit them, thus, never actually entering circulation.
Quite frankly, I’m jealous that I didn’t think of that at the time.😂
It always makes my day when a new video in this series is released. They’re always an insta-watch.
The video game Pokemon actually contains a reference to the invasive mongoose story. In the region known as Alola, based on Hawaii, there are these invasive Rattata that were ruining the ecosystem. To combat this a Pokemon known as Yungoos was introduced. The problem is the Alola Rattata are dark types and they're only active at night while Yungood is only active during the day but both are extremely common and it's mentioned in the lore that they're ruining the region's ecosystem.
I've seen every single episode of "Unintended Consequences", and this was your best. The breaking of the narration was hilarious. "Let's be honest, we all know where this is going." Comedy gold.
The cobra comment had the vibes of “look, if we build this large wooden badger…”
Run away!
1) Stop arresting thieves and shoplifters
2) Stores get robbed blind and trashed
3) Stores go bankrupt and close
4) Blame mean stores for creating "food deserts"
I'm not so sure that consequence is unintended.
@dirtyblueshirt Thats definitely the goal, have everyone dependant on the government.
Not only have everyone depend on the goverment, but also have a voting class knowing they have to vote democrat to not get arrested and have the rich leave who perhaps can spread the mind virus of being a lib to other, more prosperous states.
Why hasn't this law been challenged on fourth amendment grounds?
Destabilize society so much that the voters beg the government to "do something!" OK, they will.
"This is how freedom dies... with thunderous applause."
-one of the Star Wars prequels, after Palpatine promotes himself to emperor, for the good of the people.
@@Saint_Wolf_ that have to keep voting for free stuff because they've been rendered dependent on free stuff.
Introducing the cobras is a great idea! Some might say you've just replaced one problem with another, but once the mongooses are taken care of, you can just start paying people who bring in dead cobras....
@@HustleMuscleGhias They did that episode already, because, yeah, that already happened. ruclips.net/video/aAyPWcqiwzY/видео.html
Umm, do cobras eat mongoose, or does mongoose eat cobra?
Mongoose are notoriously difficult for cobras to kill. But I sacrificed reality to make a callback joke to a previous installment of Great Moments in Unintended Consequences.
@@spudgamer6049 Yes
You're talking about instituting a Wacking Day? But I love the s3xy slither of a lady snake....
"Oh let's be honest, we all know where this is going". When the stupid is so strong not even the narrator can keep from facepalming the logic/decision trees they're reading off.
Imagine being so dumb the narrator can't even be more sarcastic.
If I recall correctly, a few years back, Nebraska passed a law allowing no penalty child abandonment at hospitals. The idea was supposed to protect unwanted babies, but since they didn’t specify an age, some folk grabbed the opportunity to abandon difficult teens.
People where dropping off children from other states.
Here’s some great moments in unintended consequences around guns: the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and the 1990 Gun Free School Zones Act. The ‘94 Ban was circumvented by gun manufacturers modifying existing guns to fit the definition of what an “assault weapon” was. It also ignored the fact that more homicides are done with handguns. The ‘90 Gun Free Schools act just made schools a primary target for mass shooters. You could also do the Great Australian Emu War!
Excellent suggestions! Any idea if they've done the kudzu introduction yet?
Everyone knows if you call schools gun free, no one can bring a gun there. It's not like there are people who explicitly don't care about the laws.
@@stansman5461 Of course, because we all know criminals would never do something illegal.
uh, you would think the government would have caught on and have the ATF would also go after modified assualt weapons?
@@steamnamebbderinvade__they couldn't. The modifications brought the firearms into compliance with the law. The law was poorly written. As are all such infringements.
Hilarious as usual, and yet a depressingly sad commentary. And the more I hear about the coin thing, I'm disappointed in myself for not joining in on the fun.
Me too. I had no idea it happened but I would have joined in the fun.
Gotta laugh so you don't cry.
I’m so upset I was too young to partake in the rewards feast
"What if introduce cobras?" is my new retort!
Same.
"Sounds like, let's be honest we know where this is going"
@@Arshenborne Nah, the thing is if we introduce cobras, we can then talk about 'Der Kobra Effekt'...... which just sounds cool.
Plus if you think about it cobras always level the playing field, because what ever else goes on, no one wants to be bitten.
congress says "bank fees are to high" and passes laws to restrict them.
no more free checking accounts. in fact- no more free anything! banks begin charging the most they can for every service.
This is probably my favorite series ever. Thanks reasonTV
1:52 That is an Indian 2000 rupees Bill, The government introduced the note as part of a demonetization exercise to reduce corruption, black money, and counterfeit currency.
Only to take it back a few years after.
Deserves its own segment in this series.
Here's one for you: How about the efforts to get digital television to be the standard? The government not only mandated broadcasters to switch to digital, they also demanded that they stop broadcasting in analog entirely.
Sounds like a great idea! What could possible go wrong?
Well it turns out that digital broadcasts give you a fantastic image if you're within so-many miles of the broadcast source, but after that it suddenly drops and becomes unwatchable, meanwhile analog television at such ranges may be very poor and staticy, but at least gives you something. A poor, grainy image is actually something, compared to the image and sound completely stopping for an entire second, making dialogue and action completely imperceptable. And anyone who lives in a building that blocks reception also loses signal quality.
In other words, the people who live in budget-constraining conditions that lead them to actually use over-the-air television become less capable of actually watching television.
If you use this one, you should apply a visual filter to the video for the first half that makes it look like a poor analog antenna signal, and then when you show "what could possibly go wrong" you switch to a marvelously clear HD image that constantly jitters and stops and the audio cuts out without ever being able to deliver a full sentence clause, so no one can understand what you are saying.
Australia introduced the cane toads, same problem as Hawaii
If Television has taught me anything, I believe Bart Simpson was responsible for that one.
I've got a suggestion for a future episode: Oregon votes to RE-criminalize dangerous drugs. The problem "lots of people were going to jail for small amounts of heroin, meth and other narcotics." The solution, make all drugs legal!" A Great Idea, With the Best of Intentions. What could possibly go wrong?" Well, dramatically increased crime (because, you know, drugs cost money) and trying to source and consume cheap/dangerous drugs resulted the "deadliest overdose crisis in US history" (AP, 3/3/24, Salem, OR)
Great idea. Some US states banned single use plastic bags. The reusable ones used 6x more plastic snd on avg only got used 3 times before being thrown out. Result was increase plastic consumption, emissions, and now stores no longer have to give bags away free making bags a new revenue stream for them
Here's what I don't get about the plastic bag bans in general. They want people to start using more of those fabric bags. But most fabric bags are synthetic these days, and almost ALL of them have some type of screen printing on them. Screen printing uses a lot of water, which isn't reclaimed, and normal screen print inks are made out of pure plastic. Then the print flakes off and you throw away the bag when it rips. Oops, there's a big problem coming.
How about covering the 2007 incandescent light bulb ban? (Okay, it was a ban on manufacturing, not on sales.)
The problem? Incandescent light bulbs put out most of their energy as heat, leading to drains on electricity. Except... for one thing, there were a lot of secondary uses that wanted the heat, such as for reptile terrariums (where a bulb could also function as a daytime heater) and for citrus groves (where incandescent strings of Christmas lights can save a crop in the event of a hard freeze.)
There was also the fact that LED bulbs were not available at the time for home use purposes, except for a few that were $20-$40 and only came in "cool white" mode. So what was available? Compact fluorescent bulbs, those coiled weirdos, which were billed as lasting longer. Well... sometimes. Certainly not in households with toddlers, as I can tell from experience. They also had a subtle flicker to the electrical cycle rate, which means they could induce migraines in certain people (whee), didn't work in all fixtures, and were a fire risk. They also cost about $6 per bulb, where a 60W incandescent cost 60¢.
Did I forget to mention that because of the chemicals inside the bulb, they had to be disposed of as hazardous waste? Especially if one broke?
Mind you, I love the current crop of LED bulbs. But a ban... well. You know the drill.
According to Camebridge English Dictionary it is Mangooses - but I think we all can agree it should be Mangii, even though it isn't inherit from Latin
The mangii read manga at midnight...
Goose, geese: Mongoose, mongeese. Join my crusade to make the plurals of moose & house to be "meese" and "hice!" [Also, incorporating "shoop" as the singular of "sheep..."]
The first one about Coins for Cash is also stupid since the coin is as much value as the bills and credits. but the transportation and creation cost more - so it is an "exponential loss"!
I don't even understand the goal... why do we need people using coins instead of bills?
@@SeraphsWitness Coins are more durable, so presumably over time to cost to make them is less.
I suppose I could see that being a factor.@@TomDestry
@@SeraphsWitness It's simple. The politicians were pandering to women. "The United States Mint introduced the Susan B. Anthony Dollar in 1979." I was there and nobody liked the coin and there was a problem using it in vending machines. They're gone now.
Yes, a coin has a much longer lifetime than a bill@@TomDestry
Don't stop this series, seeing the overlooked cracks throught the world while sprinkling comedy into the topic is the best.
I mean that first one sounds like a nice win for the little guy. Just gotta be clever.
This voice over guy is the best!!!!
I love these videos.
Just wish the government would watch.
Please keep them coming.
I agree, voice over is excellent! The robot voice overs that can’t read anything properly make me crazy.....
I love how the Mongoose event is what lead to Pokémon creating the Yungoos
That coin trick was brilliant!
" cite your sources. What are we? Harvard? " VERY GOOD !!!!
Set the nationwide speed limit to 55. Better mpg and saves lives. Yet it did not reduce accidents and just increased speeding tickets.
Also increased gas consumption because most of the cars on the road at that time were engineered to be most efficient at 65 miles an hour
It also had the effect of popularizing CB radios, which, at the time greatly increased the ability to evade speed traps, resulting in traffic on the less traveled Interstate Highways cruising at 90+. Ah, the memories.
@@jim2041-o9b "What's your 20?" ... Miss the heck outta my Realistic CB and K-40 whip! ;) Cheers man.
Bad drivers are terrible at any speed?
@@jim2041-o9b Mercy sakes alive, we’ve got us a convoy
Fun Fact: The import & release of feral mongoose to Hawaii is the inspiration behind the Pokémon, Yungoos & Gumshoos (the one that looks like Trump…though they swear that was unintentional), as well as the Alolan variant of Rattata/Raitcate, as Yungoos & Gumshoos are only available during the day & Alolan Rattata & Raitcate are only available at night.
glad they didn't make an Alolan Ekans or Arbok
"And cite your sources, what are we Harvard?" 🤣🤣🤣
(Citation: Last 5 seconds of the above video 👆)
How about "Cash for Clunkers" and how it ended up destroying thousands of perfectly useable cars, driving up the price of used cars and making them unaffordable for low income Americans.
Pretty sure they did that one in a previous episode.
Yep, one of the more recent ones (10-13 I think)
Cue the meme ......
"He Is a man of focus, commitment and sheer fucking will."
Exactly . And if your car was too new or ran great, they told you to open the oil plug and run the engine until it seized. Then it qualified for the failed program. And the used car industry had a very bad couple years because of it.
The problem: low graduation rates at Los Angeles high schools. The solution: Incentivize school leaders to solve the problem. What could possibly go wrong? It turns out that the easiest way to graduate more kids is to simply give everyone diplomas. Teachers are instructed in "equity grading" which means kids don't have to do assignments, and extra administrative tasks are required before teachers are allowed to give an F or D grade. Soon, students notice that nothing bad happens when they stop going to class. Now there are more kids graduating from many Los Angeles high schools than there are attending, and half the kids who do show up in the morning are on their phones enough to empty the battery before they go home six hours later.
The food supply! What a great candidate for woke experimentation!
Hilariously enough, "organic" food is neither better for the environment nor healthier. It turns out there are lots of naturally occurring pesticides that meet the definition of organic, but they are worse for people. Also, since you are growing less food than you would be with synthetic pesticides on the same amount of land, it means you need to clearcut more forests for farmland to grow the same amount of food as before. This also requires more water. If my grocery store has two options, one labeled "organic" and one without the label, I always pick the non-organic food.
@@CompuBrains27 the non-organic one is usually cheaper, too!
New York State is encouraging preparedness, so they gave us a one hour lecture on preparedness, including electronics which included an admonition to check our battery dates. They gave us backpacks to get us started on our own grab-and-go packs. The pack included two D cells and a flashlight. Sounds like a great idea! With the best of intentions! The expiration date on the batteries was 2019, and one had already leaked.
"Introduce Cobra's." Don't mention that to a politician...please.
Don't worry. In Hawai'i we have a huge phobia about introducing snakes. Mainly, everyone remembers the mongoose debacle.
US department of agricultures introduction of the Asian lady beetle should be on your list. Nasty little invasive bugs that were brought to the US on purpose
"And temporary exile"
Sets a precedent for Trudeau after his ruinous economic policies!
Only if we can send OBAMA with him.
@@alfr1 Trudeau, Obama, Biden, Jacinda Ardern: send all the communists to Cuba! They'll be happy, we'll be happy, it's win win for everyone!
@@alfr1 what did Obama do?
@@aqswd6825 Have you not lived in the US for the last 15 years and have no experience with OBAMACARE? Even the Supreme Court called it a TAX, not a Volunteer Program where "You could keep your doctor or coverage"? HIS lies, not anyone elses.
@@aqswd6825 It's not really surprising you never heard of the _18_ Obama Admin scandals, since they were largely ignored by the Press, despite being the self-proclaimed "most transparent administration in history"...
Keep these coming. Educational and entertaining.
Great series!!!!
A couple of years ago, Colorado voted to reintroduce wolves into the mountains. There are now some results to examine.
Idaho too, lots of slaughtered cattle and other domestic animals.
My source myself. I have seen the critters bodies only wolves and man can kill on that scale.
@@kennethlindahl9206there were some positives as well though, the stronger ecosystem in Yellowstone being a big one for some people. Its a much more nuanced situation than most of the examples given in the video.
Humans never get tired of introducing new problems to fight problems they caused. It's like people heard the story of the old lady who swallowed a fly and thought "hang on a second, she's got a point!" I think it's only worked out one time in all of history, and that was introducing ladybugs to control aphids in the Americas.
An EV, wind power and solar panel segment perhaps?
You know what? All other things aside, the mongoose has prevented invasive species of snake ( eg. The brown tree snake) from successfully finding purchase on the islands of Hawaii. Which otherwise would have themselves neatly removed tons of native species. Sometimes it’s hard to know how a thing will turn out.
Here's a suggestion: The US government promotes green vehicles by destroying the fossil fuel industry before EVs were a viable option. What could possibly go wrong? (see also, firefighter training for toxic lithium battery fires.)
Um, how about then the Gubermint sets up a $7 billion dollar program to build the electrical support system across the country. Now, 2 years later there is no money left in the program and only built 8 charging stations; most of them in California, that has brownouts and blackouts. . And when it's very cold, the chargers are slower than the automatic heaters in those cars that use more energy warming the car than the charger car charge into it.
And the bit about all the EVs that stopped working entirely when the temperature dropped. As if it never gets cold in Chicago.
See also Child Labor and Toxic Exposures
"What are we? Harvard??"
In Okinawa (Japan) they imported mongooses to cut down on poisenous Habu (snakes) in sugar cane fields. The snakes come out at night. The mongooses roam about in daylight. Now Okinawa had two (2) pests in their sugar cane fields. They never see each other.
Oh, Gawd! That Harvard burn at the end 🤣🤣💀
"Cite your sources. What are we, Harvard?" Damn.
Great idea: change school lunches to include more veggies and fruits, and less dairy, meat, and grain, so kids will eat healthier. Unintended consequence: many kids who buy school lunch don't want 5 types of veggies/fruits without grains, meat, or dairy, so a LOT of fruits and vegetables were tossed in the trash, and kids ended up not eating enough.
I love this series! Educational, horrifying, and comical in equal parts.
"...And cite your sources! What are we, Harvard?" 🤣
Omg, I seriously died at the end when he said “cite your sources, what are we Harvard” so funny. 😂
that last line, pure gold
I really doubt that Harvard's $51000000000+ endowment is kept laying around in gold...
"The year 'insert year here'. The problem? 'insert problem here'. The solution 'insert solution here' sounds like a great idea! With the best of intensions. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"
I love how we all new where the third one was going.
I just love the format of these videos. The carnival barker moderator. The John Phillip Sousa band music. They're perfect.
Looking forward to the episode about various EU nations banning fertilizer due to global warming.
This may be the most needed set of videos on the whole RUclips
Your pluralization attempts with mongoose got me to subscribe.
And I have a couple of gold dollars in my pocket right now.
The California Environmental Quality Act should definitely be featured. Reason and Cato have loads of info on this subject.
Take a look at Commifornia. You'll have material for years.😅
"Maybe if we introduce cobras"
Cobras effect recollection intensifies
During the Carter Administration, in 1979 NHTSA under Joan Claybrook designed and built a backwards steering motorcycle. Front wheel drive. Steering via the rear wheel. They thought it would be safer. Good intentions, what could possible go wrong?
I think it's just a failed experiment. It can't be included in the series unless it's widespread problem like the ones in this episode.
That's a good suggestion: Electing Jimmy Carter. What could go wrong?
It was safer because nobody could ride it. Longest ride, by a professional motorcycle racer was 30 feet.
Also the gov't paid someone $250,000 to build it. They paid someone $20,000 and pocketed $230,000. They paid a mechanic $2000 and pocketed $18,000. He made it up out of odds and ends of used parts and pocketed $1800.
@@neilreynolds3858 After the embarrassment of APPOINTING Gerald Ford, everything could.
“Mongoosen”
Brian Regan approves 😂
"Do you have a great idea moment for Unintended Consequences, and Cite your sources. What are we Harvard?," made me LOL
I love this series!!
Hilarious that the US Mint didn't understand that the product they were selling as a collectible item is 100% fungible currency, and selling it at face value while eating the merchant fees for credit card processing creates a small exploitable arbitrage. Giving credit card airline mileage points to people who understand economics is the least bad federal government spending in recent memory.
Plural. "Send me a mongoose. While you're at it, send me another one."
"Let's be honest..." LMAO
"What are we, Harvard?" Eff me sideways I can't breathe.
Great stuff as always. 😂
GMIUC. California wants clean diesels.
Lumber industry... we out!
Consequence, forests unmanaged.
WCPGW? Wild 🔥s
Tried giving more detail but got yeeted.
The ASIN Law (1995) of the Philippines required local salt producers to add iodine to their salt to eliminate iodine deficiency but it turns out it almost kills the salt making industry of the philippines and now the nation imports most of its salt from other countries despite being surrounded by oceans
"The problem: people aren't switching to dollar coins, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE HEAVIER!"
They're also more durable, that would save the government money in the long run. As long as they can get people to do it. Canada solved this problem of getting rid of their $1 and $2 bills and replacing them with coins... by not giving people a choice. Give people a choice and they will always do what they believe is the easier thing.
@@troodon1096 Replacing bills with pocket weights probably WOULD save the U.S. government some money in the long run IF they could get American men to carry MAN PURSES for carrying them like all you Canuck men. Maybe that's the higher purpose of this crazy trans movement. Relax, I'm just joking around and I don't really mean any disrespect
Yeah carrying coins is pretty annoying @@troodon1096
Sort of like the US metric program in the 1970's.
"The problem: Americans don't want to learn a new system of measurement, even though the old one works fine!
The solution: spend millions emphasizing the mathematical complexities of converting back and forth between systems!"
Then Americans proved perfectly happy with cocaine in kilos, drinks in 2-liter bottles, cars with 5.0-liter engines, 9mm bullets, and 10-K runs. They just didn't want to do the conversion math.
The real problem is that "dollars" USED to be ~27 grams of 90% silver, worth about twenty -dollars- pieces of paper today.
A hundred years ago nobody complained about carrying around three silver dollars, because they'd buy you groceries for a week.
there is nothing to not like about this series. well done and keep them coming!
I had just finished the playlist and now an new episode just arives
Mongoosen! Nice nod to Brian Regan there! Maybe if we feed them two boxen of donuts, they won’t eat the endangered species anymore! Sounds like a great idea!
Take luck!
How about the "defund the police" movement, and the subsequent astronomical rise in crime
That might not qualify. The theme of the series is "thought this would help but it actually hurt", while I don't think anyone actually intended the defunding to accomplish anything, other than score points for some politicians with certain demographics.
The problem of not having an intelligence or common sense litmus test for people in charge of making impactful decisions. There would be unlimited content for this series out of government actions and response.
Have you seen a Poli-Sci major? They aren't the brightest
It would get rid of the political class once and for all.
Mongooses in Hawaii. A bit like cane toads in Australia. That should be an easy one for you to cover.
My favorite series on RUclips
Thank you for doing the Mongoose story. I lived there many years and saw the damage they cause. Also the non native pigs, cocci frogs mosquitoes, basically any annoying thing is non native.
You could make an entire series about JUST intentionally introduced species and the problems they've caused. Its one of those things that people just keep trying and it never, ever, even once, went well. We have hundreds of years of examples at this point.
The one with the coins and credit carts was great, I literally laughed out loud with that one.
Best one yet, "...now hear me out, what if..." that's a classic Simpson's episode from when it was still funny.
2:18 Even the mongoose looks dumbfounded by the stupidity.
When Canada switched over from $1 bills to $1 coins. The Canadian mint simply stopped printing new $1 bills. As the $1 bills currently in circulation wore out and got damaged, they were slowly replaced. As the surviving $1 bills became rarer. Collectors started scooping them up.
Is “mongoosen” a nod to Brian Regan? Hope so! Oh, well, either way, take luck. And care.
Great episode!
Great day for unintended consequences 😁
We all know the big one, but can’t say.