Reply With QuotePerhaps it started out more like this, a parody of how the stock market functions:
Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers
that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the
forest, and started catching them.
The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the
villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at
$20.
This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started
catching monkeys again.
Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to
their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so
little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50! However, since he had
to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of
him.
In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. "Look at all
these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to
you
at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for
$50 each."
The villagers rounded up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys.
Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!
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