@@forgottenrights351 Loads of Japanese people went to Brazil in the early 20th century to fill a labour shortage, there's a huge community there to this day
The Bachelor Tax: when governments try to legislate morality in addition to criminality. Did anyone else notice the hypocrisy of taxing men who don't propose, but not women who refuse proposals?
@@TheAchilles26 not always many men welfare and many women are working wage earners and her eare as ,amy family sucificient stay ho,m people of both genders
I always felt the “don’t drink and drive” sign was a ridiculous waste of tax dollars. A drunk driver driving along, sees the sign, says “Oh man I guess I should pull over and sleep it off.” Yeah a sign on the side of the road really prevents drunk driving.
Plus if they did pull over to sleep it off, a passing cop would be sure to investigate. And because of dumb laws that bust you even if you are not driving you are still screwed, incentivizing drunk driving.
Yeah, the law doesn’t allow for a drunk driver getting smart after starting to drive. I think though, you can call the police and they will assist in getting you home. I read or heard that some where.
I always thought the digital sign defaults to something like 'Don't drink and drive' if there's no urgent announcement for it to provide so it costs next to nothing.
The year : 2022-2032 The Problem : Great moments in unintended consequences isn't producing enough episodes The solution : Order 1 million episodes to be produced Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions, what could possible go wrong?
Understand, or care? Stated official intentions and actual ones aren't always the same. What is good for achieving stated official objectives may not be compatible with the career objectives of the politician or bureaucrat. Or judge.
"4.5% within 10 km..." .... 10km... 6 miles.... 4.5%, within 6 miles of a sign.... In any given 6 mile span in Texas there are probably 2 to 10 of these signs.... How could a 10km/6mile radius of a sign be relevant. Especially within a metroplex like Houston or DFW... Ah fuck I wrecked, must have been because of that sign I read 4 miles ago. Or maybe the one coming up in the next 3 miles....
Does need more detail. I don't know the area; in my area, the signs are much further apart. But 10 km is a big area; more useful would be how many more crashes within a quarter mile.
I looked it up. Ars Technica has a good article about it.The biggest effect was in the first 1km, at 2.7%. But they did notice an effect that faded out at a distance, down to 1.8% at 10km. They seem to have a lot of data to back it up. Now my bigger concern is that they just added those. That's not how percents work. If a whole increased by 10%, and we divided it up into 10 sections where each section went up by 10%, you can't magically say the whole thing went up by 100%.
From the study itself: Our proposed explanation for this surprising finding is that these “in-your-face,” “sobering” messages are too salient because they temporarily add to drivers’ cognitive loads, interfering with their ability to respond safely and quickly to changes in traffic conditions. So the 10km thing is not that they were looking at the sign, but more that it had gotten into their head. That would be consistent with data that makes crashes more likely when the number is bigger. Not that it takes longer to read, but it's more impactful. Also to my concern, they say 5% more over 5km and 4.5% over 10km. The 2.7% and 1.8% numbers are from different data and just a coincidence.
Llegamos a ReasonTV! Viva Peron carajo! I can't believe it. Here in Argentina we have taxes on everything, and when you think they had invented everything, there is some new wacky idea. Now not only I would never imagined this, they had already done it.
Bachelor tax title card - Sounds like a.... eeehhhhhhh Bizarrely antiquated idea....? With the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong? Love the twist in the catchphrase!
Ah, it makes perfect sense now: every girl I approached must be a professional rejecter and they were just practicing on me. Thanks for clearing that up!
it was once a civilians due diligence to not trust their government and to force them to make heavy investments if they ever wished to offer anything positive for the people
@@SecureLemons Yep, but now we got universal suffrage, where anyone can vote, even those with little to nothing to lose if they vote badly! What could possibly go wrong? Eh, too spicy for an unintended consequences video, let's just leave that as an inconvenient truth and move onto easier distractions, like that new abortion ruling thing now that Ukraine is old news.
It takes an average (coddled, modern day) human being at least a few decades to naturally begin to understand unintended consequences.. hence I think the main reason why a Young Liberal ends up becoming an Old Conservative
I really wonder if the consequences are unintentional though. I mean, our politicians are either really smart or really dumb. Surely highly successful elites would eventually get a handle on this sort of thing after 2 or 3 terms right? At least a few of them would. Which means some of them, likely the leadership and so forth, do know what the consequences will be and either don't care or actively want these "unintended consequences" to occur.
@@Eye_of_a_Texan Good points, but remember that elected politicians have to curry favour with the electorate. The only people dumber than politicians are the dumbos who vote for them
@@Eye_of_a_Texan I'm buttin' in where I wasn't invited but only to say this...for what it's worth coming from what your point of view is just a screen name. This brief exchange between you and the person you replied to, romancandlefight, will now forever remain one of the most succint, civil, decent, and intelligent discussions I have ever had the good fortune to witness here in the world of "social media". Or this way: I'm old, cynical, bitter, tired, tired of, and tired from. I have finally moved from simply misanthropic to totally nihilisitic. Your little exchange hints that maybe, just maybe, "Hope" does indeed remain in the bottom of Pandora's Box. Stay safe and be well.
@@jackmorgan8931 I always thought the reference there was that there was no hope in the world. The hope that was supposed to be in the world is still in the box. Pandora released all these evils but closed the box on the only thing which had value in the box. The ultimate fool one might say.
@@Eye_of_a_Texan Now look at what you done gone and done. You gave me a point of view I had never, no not once, thought of. And now (!) I am sitting here and saying, to myself, "Dude! Were you really *that* stupid?" To which I have to answer, "Well yeah, Apparently so." So Pandora wasn't "playing nice" and keeping "hope" in a box for "safe keeping" while those stupid humans tried to figure it all out. No, SHE is the evil wench who, well, what you wrote: "Pandora released all these evils but closed the box on the only thing which had value in the box." Texan, you just made my day. You stay safe and be well.
U.S. Last Century, Farmers income reduced because of too many crops in market. Congress subsidizes farmers to NOT plant crops. Many Comgressperson buy farms as absentee farmers to pay themselves for NOT planting crops.
The highway billboard thing is, I'm sure, partly correlation. But I will say that when they try to deliver more than one screen of information it gets very distracting.
@@romancandlefight1144 but where's your control group? Crashes went up around these signs, yes. Did crashes also go up 4.5% around the rest of the state? We'll never know because Reason does not cite the source mentioned.
"within ten kilometers of the sign" seems like a very arbitrary distance. The idea that people are being distracted by a sign 6 miles away seems far fetched. The idea that people are more interested in these signs than they are the new digital billboards also seems far fetched. This is one of my favorite series but this one looks like Reason ran out of material.
True. However, I will still support anyone throwing shade at those things. They may not be bad per se, but they're annoying as hell. and for people with anxiety problems...
I looked it up. Ars Technica has a good article about it.The biggest effect was in the first 1km, at 2.7%. But they did notice an effect that faded out at a distance, down to 1.8% at 10km. They seem to have a lot of data to back it up. Now my bigger concern is that they just added those. That's not how percents work. If a whole increased by 10%, and we divided it up into 10 sections where each section went up by 10%, you can't magically say the whole thing went up by 100%.
@@notme222 If they did that, the study is not worth the paper it's written on. But the 10km itself is not necessarily wrong. I mean you can still talk to your passengers about the sign and crash 2 minutes after having passed it. But these studies can get wrong results super easily. 2.7% probably is barely above the noise...
@@0ntimetaiment921 Yeah, after I wrote that I looked up the paper directly and replied in another comment thread. It's basically what you said. People weren't distracted from *looking* at the sign, but rather from *thinking* about it. They observed that the more dramatic the number, the higher the accident rate. And as for my concern the numbers come from different data sets and adding up is a coincidence.
I've observed that the law of unintended consequences seems to follow every decision. Whether big or small results, positive or negative they are impossible to get away from and frequently difficult to mitigate. These videos are very illuminating.
The Year: Somewhere in the 2010s The Problem: The Avengers, an MCU movie, is very successful, breaking many box office records. The Solution: Forcibly create a cinematic universe, create a solo movie with too much worldbuilding and, in order to compete with Marvel, rush a crossover film with way more setup and worldbuilding for the next CU film! Sounds like a wild, ambitious idea! With the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong?
We have those signs in Germany as well. But ours are huge hulking billboards that you can see and read while looking at the road ahead, so we don't have that problem.
Portugal 2021 - Ban on plástic cups: Everyone had to Change from plastic to "paper" cups that are have a plástic film therefore can't bem recycled. To reduce residues The government was able to Change from Millions of plastic cups recycled to Millions of cups that end up on land fields.
The road sign one reminded me of something that happened at a place I work once. It was a carpet mill with forklifts running all over the place. The forklift to go beep beep in reverse but reverse only. To keep forklift related incidences down someone decide to fix it to the forklift to go forward and reverse. With a forklift going to beep beep All the Time around the clock people got what they just got used to the sound. Forklift related incidences doubled. After just three weeks they rewired them back to the way they were beeping only in reverse. But the damage was done. It took close to 6 months for people to unlearn what they had learned in 3 weeks. 6 months for forklift related incidents to drop to what they were before the program started. And it would have been longer if the meal didn't have such a high turnover rate.
they did the water refill thing at George Mason. For some reason at our school the plastic consumption decreased. Did our students have better memories? I dont know. Seems odd.
Possibly. Honestly tryign to make people use reusable bottles is a good idea. You just need to focus on making it as convenient as possible and not just ban stuff while expecting people to act as planned.
@@metazoxan2 Yes I agree. Our campus had water spigots all over the place and they actually cut back on the number of bottled water in vending machines. it did work.
Don't forget the road sign's that say things like "Texting while driving has killed XXX amount of people, text XYZ to 1234 for more information" Or "Distracted driving kills" but no one can figure out that those road signs are a distraction. LOL
I saw this happen in industry, with the manufacturing process, all the time. A great idea to cut down cost and speed up the manufacturing of a product at one station, added cost and time to the product at another station.
@@maarten1115 that is a bit of a narrow view, if I may say so. Money lending provides capital so that capital intensive projects can be built. Factories, hospitals, airports, hotels, shopping malls, are all built because someone provided the capital to do so, usually this capital comes as a loan.
@@maarten1115 Wrong, money lending is very important to give entrepreneurs and private citizens capital to invest in productive industry. A business just to avoid getting taxed is not productive, that's why low broad tax bases are best.
Bachelor tax seems hilarious. I'd have to look at the details and see what qualifies and doesn't. Like is any dating required, does the proposal have to be done in person? Or could you just mail a letter to a famous actress asking her to marry you and then use it as an exemption?
Traffic cameras have the same effect as the awareness signs. People will run a red light anyway then look around for a camera instead of watching the road
Americans gona like this!!! In 1939 Republic of Lithuania was pushed by USSR to sign "treaty of mutual help in case of threat from 3rd countries". In 1940 soviets demanded from Lithuania to remove firearms from private or organisation owners "to avoid posible incidents by "unlawful" people acts". In 1941 soviets arrested around 50 000 preavious firearm owners and deported them to Siberia were 90 percent of them died or was killed in next 3 years. Keep your arms Americans or you gonna know what dictatorship really mean soon....
as a texan...yeah. the digital signs are a nuisance, distraction and a waste of money. and some of the messages than attempt to be humorous are eye-rollingly bad and annoying
FHWA is starting to crack down on unneeded messages on the changeable road signs since having something unimportant displayed is worse than leaving it blank.
I enjoy watching these videos, shining the light on the stupidity of government in lawmakers. Did anybody else notice the narrator's lower enthusiasm in episodes at 6 and 7, compared to other episodes? It's most noticeable in the "what could possibly go wrong" part. I would have thought they would have simply reused that audio for every episode.
Actually, that last one is hilarious. Sure, the government created the problem in the first place, but private citizens found a pretty good work around.
They could do one on the unintended consequences of the land use clauses of the Endangered Species Act alone (farmers et al failing to report discovered specimens, false reports to prevent construction or use, etc.)
For the third one, I just had the idea of a professional rejector not rejecting someone. Professional Rejector: *Holds 'I will reject you' sign* Bachelor: "Will you marry me?" Professional Rejector: "Screw this job! Yes I will." Bachelor: "Wait, I wanted a tax deduction, not a wife." Bride: "Now you will have both."
I heard making texting and driving illegal increased crashes since people will still do it, but now hide their phones low instead of holding them up where they could still somewhat watch the road.
Funnily enough, the whole water bottle filler thing is actually starting to finally become useful. The newer students are more consistent at remembering their water bottles, finally putting the whole system to use.
[ 🔮 ] New York City announced this week it would spend $4 million on a campaign to try to curb dangerous driving behaviors like speeding. At the center of the campaign are billboards, showing a gruesome traffic accident. - source: Axios: "The problem with road safety signs" May 5, 2022
Has anyone ever considered putting giant billboards of bloody accidents, only at intersections where they only show the ad at red lights, and/or only at one-way on ramps to expressways, with the slogan, "F*cking pay attention or die." Simple, quick to absorb, only seen by drivers not immediately facing oncoming or competing vehicles. Much better than making actual drivers on the move read data. Not a bad slogan for a whole range of human activities.
nah. It is because the knowledge necesary to make these plans is distributed through society and it's often knowledge contextualized in time and place. Politicians are the same brand of Homo sapiens you see on the streets.
@@FilosSofo Agreed, it just shows the futility of trying to engineer complex human interactions. The best government can do is keep the rules and taxes simple and predictable and let people make their own choices.
@@FilosSofo I'm not trying to say that there are different breed of human being. Our leaders are unfortunately All too human. but I am trying to say is that they lack the human perspective and they view everything as a spreadsheet with numbers to balance
How about the Florida yacht building industry? Yep. There used to be a thriving boat building industry in Florida. Congress passed a 10% luxury tax on new yacht construction in the US. However, it seems new yachts are built all over the world and there is also a thriving marketplace for used yachts. Potential yacht buyers had options that avoided the tax. Overnight, the sales of new yachts in Florida dropped to virtually zero and the shipyards shut down. Chicago passed a surtax on soft drinks and calculated the revenues based on current sales. At the end of the year, revenues were only about one third of the projection. Apparently, they didn't count on people being willing to drive a few miles into a neighboring town to avoid the tax on their soft drink purchases.
Man, I don’t even live in Argentina and women all over have been rejecting me like it’s their job
#me too bro...god thing we dont have to pay for it...
@@simpesfaip yet.
Probably better off that way.
Your honor. I'm a virgin.. and also gay.
Gold diggers
"Can't buy love, but rejection is on sale."
What a great line.
I swear the Beatles could have created a great song based on this idea.
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The bachelor tax was sort of like a reverse one child policy. Government stupidity in both directions. Another great episode!
I'd imagine that Argentina at the time had some space to fill, but still pretty stupid.
We should just send the Chinese to Argentina. It sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong?
@@forgottenrights351 well I’d certainly like to send them somewhere lol
@@forgottenrights351 Loads of Japanese people went to Brazil in the early 20th century to fill a labour shortage, there's a huge community there to this day
Under Mao the government encouraged Chinese people to have as many kids as possible. The One Child Policy was to correct for that.
This is the best series, who else knows that it started 10 years ago and they didn't make an episode for 10 years. And now they made six since
That's awesome.
I just discovered these videos.
Didn't realize it was that long ago, but I knew they have been around with major gaps between them.
"We should make videos about unintended consequences."
"That sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong?"
Well, lately the sense of urgency is on a spectacular increase.
Rat Tails are Money$..
The problem is that politicians will try to overcome the unintended consequences with more laws that create more unintended consequences!
With the best of intentions... For their pocket books.
Hence why there are hundreds of thousands of laws... And I suspect it's now the same in every country on the planet.. 👍
-- F.A. Hayek
It's what we call a racket.
A government make-work program infinity loop.
The Bachelor Tax: when governments try to legislate morality in addition to criminality.
Did anyone else notice the hypocrisy of taxing men who don't propose, but not women who refuse proposals?
meh, it's just one more female privilege...
Men are the producers, so taxing women wouldn't 'work' as well
@@juliantheapostate8295
At least in 1900
@@0011peace it's still the case. Men are net taxpayers and women are net tax beneficiaries.
@@TheAchilles26 not always many men welfare and many women are working wage earners and her eare as ,amy family sucificient stay ho,m people of both genders
I always felt the “don’t drink and drive” sign was a ridiculous waste of tax dollars. A drunk driver driving along, sees the sign, says “Oh man I guess I should pull over and sleep it off.” Yeah a sign on the side of the road really prevents drunk driving.
Plus if they did pull over to sleep it off, a passing cop would be sure to investigate. And because of dumb laws that bust you even if you are not driving you are still screwed, incentivizing drunk driving.
Just as effective as gun free zone to prevent mass shootings.
I know. Just like those "don't beat your wife" ads aired during the Superbowl. I'm pretty sure they already know it's bad they just don't care.
Yeah, the law doesn’t allow for a drunk driver getting smart after starting to drive. I think though, you can call the police and they will assist in getting you home. I read or heard that some where.
I always thought the digital sign defaults to something like 'Don't drink and drive' if there's no urgent announcement for it to provide so it costs next to nothing.
As an argentinian I didn't know about the bachelor thing, but if you look at our history it's full of stories like this.
Nice video btw
I would like to order 1 million more episodes of this. its so fun.
Sounds like a great idea!
I agree, yet even a million more would hardly exhaust the possibilities. Sadly.
Sound alike a great idea! What could possibly go wrong? Lol
@@wyleong4326 No time to watch Harry Potter
The year : 2022-2032
The Problem : Great moments in unintended consequences isn't producing enough episodes
The solution : Order 1 million episodes to be produced
Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions, what could possible go wrong?
This could be a 7/24 channel. Government will never understand incentives.
True, and ironically, because they're not incentivized to...
Understand, or care?
Stated official intentions and actual ones aren't always the same. What is good for achieving stated official objectives may not be compatible with the career objectives of the politician or bureaucrat. Or judge.
as entertaining as these are, i wish there was a shortage of new material for this series.
"4.5% within 10 km..." .... 10km... 6 miles.... 4.5%, within 6 miles of a sign.... In any given 6 mile span in Texas there are probably 2 to 10 of these signs.... How could a 10km/6mile radius of a sign be relevant. Especially within a metroplex like Houston or DFW... Ah fuck I wrecked, must have been because of that sign I read 4 miles ago. Or maybe the one coming up in the next 3 miles....
Does need more detail. I don't know the area; in my area, the signs are much further apart. But 10 km is a big area; more useful would be how many more crashes within a quarter mile.
I looked it up. Ars Technica has a good article about it.The biggest effect was in the first 1km, at 2.7%. But they did notice an effect that faded out at a distance, down to 1.8% at 10km. They seem to have a lot of data to back it up.
Now my bigger concern is that they just added those. That's not how percents work. If a whole increased by 10%, and we divided it up into 10 sections where each section went up by 10%, you can't magically say the whole thing went up by 100%.
From the study itself:
Our proposed explanation for this surprising finding is that these “in-your-face,”
“sobering” messages are too salient because they temporarily add to drivers’ cognitive
loads, interfering with their ability to respond safely and quickly to changes in traffic
conditions.
So the 10km thing is not that they were looking at the sign, but more that it had gotten into their head. That would be consistent with data that makes crashes more likely when the number is bigger. Not that it takes longer to read, but it's more impactful.
Also to my concern, they say 5% more over 5km and 4.5% over 10km. The 2.7% and 1.8% numbers are from different data and just a coincidence.
Yeah that 10km seems really far. I don't sit there and think about a sign for another five minutes after I passed it.
"Oh shit, did you read that sign?..... I'm gonna die on this damn ro- OH SHIT SEMI TRAILER!"
Please keep this awesome series alive and well. There really is no shortage of source material.
That one about the signs shows me he doesn't know how to pick his material. It's dubious at best.
Llegamos a ReasonTV! Viva Peron carajo!
I can't believe it. Here in Argentina we have taxes on everything, and when you think they had invented everything, there is some new wacky idea. Now not only I would never imagined this, they had already done it.
Bachelor tax title card -
Sounds like a.... eeehhhhhhh Bizarrely antiquated idea....? With the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong?
Love the twist in the catchphrase!
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Ah, it makes perfect sense now: every girl I approached must be a professional rejecter and they were just practicing on me. Thanks for clearing that up!
How many girls have you proposed to?
Just goes to show that authoritarian entities suck at solving problems.
Great show!
it was once a civilians due diligence to not trust their government and to force them to make heavy investments if they ever wished to offer anything positive for the people
@@SecureLemons Yep, but now we got universal suffrage, where anyone can vote, even those with little to nothing to lose if they vote badly! What could possibly go wrong?
Eh, too spicy for an unintended consequences video, let's just leave that as an inconvenient truth and move onto easier distractions, like that new abortion ruling thing now that Ukraine is old news.
Explains why the US and Canada are failing badly right now.
Become anarchocapitalist, heck you just don't know you're one
@@fss1704 anarchism is never a viable solution as it always descends into a tyranny by the bullies who size power in a power vacuum.
Keep this series up, love these.
Unlimited supply of topics for this series 😂
It takes an average (coddled, modern day) human being at least a few decades to naturally begin to understand unintended consequences.. hence I think the main reason why a Young Liberal ends up becoming an Old Conservative
I really wonder if the consequences are unintentional though. I mean, our politicians are either really smart or really dumb. Surely highly successful elites would eventually get a handle on this sort of thing after 2 or 3 terms right? At least a few of them would. Which means some of them, likely the leadership and so forth, do know what the consequences will be and either don't care or actively want these "unintended consequences" to occur.
@@Eye_of_a_Texan Good points, but remember that elected politicians have to curry favour with the electorate.
The only people dumber than politicians are the dumbos who vote for them
@@Eye_of_a_Texan
I'm buttin' in where I wasn't invited but only to say this...for what it's worth coming from what your point of view is just a screen name.
This brief exchange between you and the person you replied to, romancandlefight, will now forever remain one of the most succint, civil, decent, and intelligent discussions I have ever had the good fortune to witness here in the world of "social media".
Or this way: I'm old, cynical, bitter, tired, tired of, and tired from. I have finally moved from simply misanthropic to totally nihilisitic.
Your little exchange hints that maybe, just maybe, "Hope" does indeed remain in the bottom of Pandora's Box.
Stay safe and be well.
@@jackmorgan8931 I always thought the reference there was that there was no hope in the world. The hope that was supposed to be in the world is still in the box. Pandora released all these evils but closed the box on the only thing which had value in the box. The ultimate fool one might say.
@@Eye_of_a_Texan
Now look at what you done gone and done. You gave me a point of view I had never, no not once, thought of. And now (!) I am sitting here and saying, to myself, "Dude! Were you really *that* stupid?" To which I have to answer, "Well yeah, Apparently so."
So Pandora wasn't "playing nice" and keeping "hope" in a box for "safe keeping" while those stupid humans tried to figure it all out. No, SHE is the evil wench who, well, what you wrote:
"Pandora released all these evils but closed the box on the only thing which had value in the box."
Texan, you just made my day.
You stay safe and be well.
U.S. Last Century, Farmers income reduced because of too many crops in market. Congress subsidizes farmers to NOT plant crops. Many Comgressperson buy farms as absentee farmers to pay themselves for NOT planting crops.
The highway billboard thing is, I'm sure, partly correlation. But I will say that when they try to deliver more than one screen of information it gets very distracting.
It's not coincidental correlation if it's a measured increase after the signs are added (as it was)
@@romancandlefight1144 but where's your control group? Crashes went up around these signs, yes. Did crashes also go up 4.5% around the rest of the state? We'll never know because Reason does not cite the source mentioned.
"within ten kilometers of the sign" seems like a very arbitrary distance. The idea that people are being distracted by a sign 6 miles away seems far fetched.
The idea that people are more interested in these signs than they are the new digital billboards also seems far fetched.
This is one of my favorite series but this one looks like Reason ran out of material.
True.
However, I will still support anyone throwing shade at those things.
They may not be bad per se, but they're annoying as hell.
and for people with anxiety problems...
The study doesn't factor much besides distance. Could be anything that raised the rates but why say that when that stats favor your points?
I looked it up. Ars Technica has a good article about it.The biggest effect was in the first 1km, at 2.7%. But they did notice an effect that faded out at a distance, down to 1.8% at 10km. They seem to have a lot of data to back it up.
Now my bigger concern is that they just added those. That's not how percents work. If a whole increased by 10%, and we divided it up into 10 sections where each section went up by 10%, you can't magically say the whole thing went up by 100%.
@@notme222 If they did that, the study is not worth the paper it's written on. But the 10km itself is not necessarily wrong. I mean you can still talk to your passengers about the sign and crash 2 minutes after having passed it.
But these studies can get wrong results super easily. 2.7% probably is barely above the noise...
@@0ntimetaiment921 Yeah, after I wrote that I looked up the paper directly and replied in another comment thread.
It's basically what you said. People weren't distracted from *looking* at the sign, but rather from *thinking* about it. They observed that the more dramatic the number, the higher the accident rate.
And as for my concern the numbers come from different data sets and adding up is a coincidence.
“Unintended Consequences” is my favorite series on TH-cam! Please do them more frequently!
I've observed that the law of unintended consequences seems to follow every decision. Whether big or small results, positive or negative they are impossible to get away from and frequently difficult to mitigate. These videos are very illuminating.
Should the government... NO!!!
The Year: Somewhere in the 2010s
The Problem: The Avengers, an MCU movie, is very successful, breaking many box office records.
The Solution: Forcibly create a cinematic universe, create a solo movie with too much worldbuilding and, in order to compete with Marvel, rush a crossover film with way more setup and worldbuilding for the next CU film!
Sounds like a wild, ambitious idea! With the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong?
I'm loving this series! Great way to point out the unintended consequences of coercive government actions.
Love these videos
I love these so much. More, plz.
Brilliant. Instant text msg alert clip.
We have those signs in Germany as well. But ours are huge hulking billboards that you can see and read while looking at the road ahead, so we don't have that problem.
This whole series is a perfect example of why we need smaller and less invasive government.
One has to be boring if (s)he can't love this series, no other chance. Thanx for being there
These UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES get better & better
Keep it up !
Greatest video series on all the youtubes
Unintended consequences are the lighter side of government. More often than not, government abuse of citizens is completely intentional.
No, even the completely intentional abuses have their own sets of unintentional consequences.
Portugal 2021 - Ban on plástic cups: Everyone had to Change from plastic to "paper" cups that are have a plástic film therefore can't bem recycled. To reduce residues The government was able to Change from Millions of plastic cups recycled to Millions of cups that end up on land fields.
Hearing stupidity explained is entertaining.
These videos are pure gold... please keep up the good work!
Weekly instalments. Please!
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Psychopaths: “Those are rookie numbers!”
Per usual, this cheered me up. Yet more proof you can't legislate smarts or morals.
The road sign one reminded me of something that happened at a place I work once. It was a carpet mill with forklifts running all over the place. The forklift to go beep beep in reverse but reverse only. To keep forklift related incidences down someone decide to fix it to the forklift to go forward and reverse. With a forklift going to beep beep All the Time around the clock people got what they just got used to the sound. Forklift related incidences doubled. After just three weeks they rewired them back to the way they were beeping only in reverse. But the damage was done. It took close to 6 months for people to unlearn what they had learned in 3 weeks. 6 months for forklift related incidents to drop to what they were before the program started. And it would have been longer if the meal didn't have such a high turnover rate.
they did the water refill thing at George Mason. For some reason at our school the plastic consumption decreased. Did our students have better memories? I dont know. Seems odd.
Possibly.
Honestly tryign to make people use reusable bottles is a good idea. You just need to focus on making it as convenient as possible and not just ban stuff while expecting people to act as planned.
@@metazoxan2 Yes I agree. Our campus had water spigots all over the place and they actually cut back on the number of bottled water in vending machines. it did work.
The plastic bottle issue was a feature, not a bug. Carbonated drink consumption has been falling for years, behavioral science to the rescue.
The problem is government. More government is even worse.
Don't forget the road sign's that say things like "Texting while driving has killed XXX amount of people, text XYZ to 1234 for more information" Or "Distracted driving kills" but no one can figure out that those road signs are a distraction. LOL
Thank you, more please.
I saw this happen in industry, with the manufacturing process, all the time. A great idea to cut down cost and speed up the manufacturing of a product at one station, added cost and time to the product at another station.
The Argentinian law actually created a new industry so we can say that one was successful.
It would be a stretch to call it an industry.
Industry produces a useful output.
@@michaelgusovsky By that logic, money lending isn't much of an industry either.
Complicated taxes keep accountants in business. But I wouldn't call it success
@@maarten1115 that is a bit of a narrow view, if I may say so.
Money lending provides capital so that capital intensive projects can be built.
Factories, hospitals, airports, hotels, shopping malls, are all built because someone provided the capital to do so, usually this capital comes as a loan.
@@maarten1115 Wrong, money lending is very important to give entrepreneurs and private citizens capital to invest in productive industry. A business just to avoid getting taxed is not productive, that's why low broad tax bases are best.
Bachelor tax seems hilarious. I'd have to look at the details and see what qualifies and doesn't. Like is any dating required, does the proposal have to be done in person? Or could you just mail a letter to a famous actress asking her to marry you and then use it as an exemption?
I love this series!
Part 1 reminds me of highway signs telling you to watch the road and pay attention.
Love GMIUC. Well produced!
I love these they're so perfect...
i think i found my dream job with the professional rejector thing
Traffic cameras have the same effect as the awareness signs. People will run a red light anyway then look around for a camera instead of watching the road
This was hilarious!!!
man we need these now more than ever
Good intentions are easy when it’s someone else’s money you are spending.
Very entertaining 👍
Texan drives down the highway, sees the sign, says "Shoot! We can beat that number! Hold my beer!"
I guess everything really is bigger in Texas
The path to hell is paved with good intentions.
More please
Thanks for doing God’s work here. I love these.
God i love this series
Americans gona like this!!! In 1939 Republic of Lithuania was pushed by USSR to sign "treaty of mutual help in case of threat from 3rd countries". In 1940 soviets demanded from Lithuania to remove firearms from private or organisation owners "to avoid posible incidents by "unlawful" people acts". In 1941 soviets arrested around 50 000 preavious firearm owners and deported them to Siberia were 90 percent of them died or was killed in next 3 years.
Keep your arms Americans or you gonna know what dictatorship really mean soon....
as a texan...yeah. the digital signs are a nuisance, distraction and a waste of money. and some of the messages than attempt to be humorous are eye-rollingly bad and annoying
A great book. You left us too soon, John.
FHWA is starting to crack down on unneeded messages on the changeable road signs since having something unimportant displayed is worse than leaving it blank.
Thanks again
These are my favorite.
I enjoy watching these videos, shining the light on the stupidity of government in lawmakers.
Did anybody else notice the narrator's lower enthusiasm in episodes at 6 and 7, compared to other episodes?
It's most noticeable in the "what could possibly go wrong" part. I would have thought they would have simply reused that audio for every episode.
The bachelor tax is actually hilarious.
This series should be a documentary and a book.
Actually, that last one is hilarious. Sure, the government created the problem in the first place, but private citizens found a pretty good work around.
These should be ten times more popular than they are...
These are so awesome. I am glad I found them at episode 2 though having to go years between the 1st and 2nd would have been terrible
Why did they keep the sugary drinks… if the bottles were the problem?
do cash for clunkers....we are still feeling the horrors of it till this day
This series would be Great MSM PSA announcements. I'd imagine it would improve legislative thought processes, too!
Love it!
They could do one on the unintended consequences of the land use clauses of the Endangered Species Act alone (farmers et al failing to report discovered specimens, false reports to prevent construction or use, etc.)
More please!
For the third one, I just had the idea of a professional rejector not rejecting someone.
Professional Rejector: *Holds 'I will reject you' sign*
Bachelor: "Will you marry me?"
Professional Rejector: "Screw this job! Yes I will."
Bachelor: "Wait, I wanted a tax deduction, not a wife."
Bride: "Now you will have both."
you can do NAFTA. Made a lot of companies move their factories down to Mexico. Losing a lot of US jobs in the process
I heard making texting and driving illegal increased crashes since people will still do it, but now hide their phones low instead of holding them up where they could still somewhat watch the road.
Funnily enough, the whole water bottle filler thing is actually starting to finally become useful. The newer students are more consistent at remembering their water bottles, finally putting the whole system to use.
love it!
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New York City announced this week it would spend $4 million on a campaign to try to curb dangerous driving behaviors like speeding. At the center of the campaign are billboards, showing a gruesome traffic accident.
- source: Axios:
"The problem with road safety signs"
May 5, 2022
Has anyone ever considered putting giant billboards of bloody accidents, only at intersections where they only show the ad at red lights, and/or only at one-way on ramps to expressways, with the slogan, "F*cking pay attention or die." Simple, quick to absorb, only seen by drivers not immediately facing oncoming or competing vehicles. Much better than making actual drivers on the move read data.
Not a bad slogan for a whole range of human activities.
The reason this keeps happening is because politicians don't live on the ground with everyone else and don't think like normal people do.
nah. It is because the knowledge necesary to make these plans is distributed through society and it's often knowledge contextualized in time and place.
Politicians are the same brand of Homo sapiens you see on the streets.
@@FilosSofo Agreed, it just shows the futility of trying to engineer complex human interactions. The best government can do is keep the rules and taxes simple and predictable and let people make their own choices.
@@FilosSofo I'm not trying to say that there are different breed of human being. Our leaders are unfortunately All too human.
but I am trying to say is that they lack the human perspective and they view everything as a spreadsheet with numbers to balance
There are 4 types of countries: developed, undeveloped, Japan and Argentina (quoting someone)
lol why Japan and Argentina?
@@vaiyaktikasolarbeam1906 They are stuck.
@@Jeca1789 economic stagnation?
@@vaiyaktikasolarbeam1906 Bad habits.
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This series should be mandatory watching in all classrooms. What could possibly go wrong?
Now write a paper about the inherent bias of white libertarians and how they are furthering the patriarchy. ;-P
I love it
I'm surprised you didn't throw in a super recent example in the end, like your previous videos did. Instead you showed us the 2012 one immediately.
0:50 that is a scary molecule
How about the Florida yacht building industry? Yep. There used to be a thriving boat building industry in Florida. Congress passed a 10% luxury tax on new yacht construction in the US. However, it seems new yachts are built all over the world and there is also a thriving marketplace for used yachts. Potential yacht buyers had options that avoided the tax. Overnight, the sales of new yachts in Florida dropped to virtually zero and the shipyards shut down.
Chicago passed a surtax on soft drinks and calculated the revenues based on current sales. At the end of the year, revenues were only about one third of the projection. Apparently, they didn't count on people being willing to drive a few miles into a neighboring town to avoid the tax on their soft drink purchases.