Osama Bin Laden’s neighbours were entrepreneurs!

People taking advantage of the incentives available to make money exist everywhere, as Osama Bin Laden’s young neighbours demonstrated.

This article in the New York Times explains how when children playing near the compound accidently let a ball fly into the compound, the mysterious owners never let them retrieve the ball, rather giving them 50 rupees to buy another one. As a profit margin now existed, this led to balls being thrown into the compound on purpose - and the owners kept paying!

However, government interference has again resulted in the small time entrepreneur losing out…