Building a worse rat-trap

Somehow I missed this stroke of genius from last month.

One brilliant politician has proposed saving Berlin from vermin by sending the poor out to hunt them: “People who collect bottles could be paid €1 per rat”

He’s not thought this one through, has he? I don’t mean because it’s a half-baked, inhumanew market solution for a problem better handled by the state — we expect that from an FDP politic...