A trader came to a village and announced that he would buy every monkey for 10 rupees.
The villagers caught a lot of monkeys and gave them. A few days later, when the monkeys became scarce, he said:
> “Now I will give 20 rupees for each monkey.”
People tried again and caught more monkeys.
Then he raised the price to 50 rupees. Now the monkeys were very few.
One day the trader went to the city and left his assistant behind.
The assistant told the villagers:
> “All these monkeys are in a cage, you can buy them from me for 35 rupees,
when the owner returns, you can sell them for 50 rupees, you will make a profit.”
People, tempted, bought all the monkeys.
After that, they neither saw the trader nor the assistant, there were just monkeys everywhere.🐵🙊🙉
This is called the stock market..