In a village, there were a lot of monkeys.
One day, a man came to the village and announced that he would buy a monkey for 500 rupees. People started catching monkeys and selling them to him, reducing the number of monkeys in the village. The man then increased the price to 1,000 rupees, and eventually, the price reached 50,000 rupees. However, by then, monkeys had become so scarce that they were nowhere to be found.
Another monkey trader entered the village and offered to sell monkeys for 25,000 rupees. People eagerly started buying monkeys at this price, hoping to sell them to the first trader for 50,000 rupees. The price kept increasing, reaching 100,000 rupees. Villagers, believing in continued profits, purchased all the monkeys available for 50,000 each. Suddenly, both traders disappeared from the village.
The only difference now was that earlier, monkeys roamed freely in the village, but now every monkey had an owner who had paid 50,000 rupees for it.