The Cobra Effect
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🗓️ 4 October 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The cobra effect occurs when an attempted solution to a problem makes the problem worse,[1][2] as a type of unintended consequence. The term is used to illustrate the causes of incorrect stimulation in economy and politics.[2]
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| 0:00.0 | So this episode may be the first episode we ever recorded of the show. |
| 0:04.7 | So it was recorded a while ago. |
| 0:06.4 | Recorded before the show released, it has never been released, |
| 0:10.1 | even though we released some of our pre-stuff to patrons before we actually launched. |
| 0:15.0 | This has never been released, only about maybe 10 people have heard it. |
| 0:18.4 | But this was the first episode of this show that we ever recorded. |
| 0:21.8 | And this was the turning point episode for us to make us realize that this was sort of the format that we were going to go with. |
| 0:29.0 | There's some dated stuff in here and some placeholder stuff that you're going to hear. |
| 0:32.6 | We didn't really formulate the Twitter question and answer yet. |
| 0:35.1 | We certainly hadn't figured out what our Patreon page was going to be called yet. |
| 0:38.0 | So there's going to be some talk about that that seems like it's not formulated yet. |
| 0:43.2 | And also, Keith makes several jokes about eugenics being the next episode. |
| 0:47.8 | And we did eventually do eugenics. |
| 0:50.0 | We initially were going to release this episode within the first five. |
| 0:53.0 | But we wanted to do some more and different things in the first five. |
| 0:58.4 | So this episode got pushed back. |
| 1:00.4 | And so it wound up getting pushed back as a bank episode. |
| 1:03.3 | And luckily, we had it in the bank. |
| 1:05.8 | And we could reproduce an episode this week because the puzzle guys just got back on a tour. |
| 1:10.8 | They had been gone for 14 days and they could not record. |
| 1:14.0 | So this, luckily, we had this episode that we could play for people. |
| 1:19.2 | We hope you enjoyed it. |
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