http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/30/africa/kenya-ivory-burn/
if there was any proof niggers have zero understanding of economics here it is.
LETS TRY TO GET RID OF POACHING BY MAKING THE RESOURCE YOU GET FROM POACHING RARER, AKA MORE VALUABLE.
Jesus fucking christ.
>niggernomics
>burn thousands of dollars worth of material
>this is somehow a good thing
I understand the message they were trying to convey but...this seem a bit much.
It's about sending a message
>>72540872
you know instead of selling it, and then using the money to protect the already existing elephants, lets burn it all making their deaths meaningless, and driving up the price of alive elephant horns.
That's why we put drug dealers in jail for 20 to life right? That's why the war on drugs has been a colossal failure? We're doing the same thing.
>>72540648
Kenyanomics?
Voodoonomics?
>A rainy Saturday afternoon brought together heads of state from several African nations and hundreds of onlookers to watch Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta set fire to over $172 million worth of illicit wildlife goods.
>$172 million
Are you retarded?
If they sell it you can bet your ass corrupt nigger officials will never crack down on ivory smuggling but just take out a share of the profit
>>72541028
Drugs are not a naturally occurring resource, they will always be scarce. With the exception to like mushrooms, which isn't illegal to have unless its been dried.
>>72541900
you dont understand how property rights work do you? The government doesn't have to do shit if a resource is valuable and there are private citizens who own it, they will hire their own security.
The entire reason this is a problem is because no one knows who owns the elephants, so they get severely over farmed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons