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Back in the 1820s, a local governor wanted to introduce the farming of potatoes in Greece. He tried to convince the farmers to plant it but they didn't want the new plant and nobody was cultivating it. So he played some theatrics: He pretended to lock up the seeds in a storage facility which would be "heavily guarded" due to their value. He spread rumors of the seeds and the facility and then he allowed the guards to look the other way in order for farmers to start stealing the seeds. And, as the story goes, that's how potatoes started getting cultivated over here :D
OMG!! I love that you know that, that is a great story! Its very interesting to watch our desire levels as things get taken away, It's like the disney movies getting locked in a vault! Then all the sudden everyone wants them.
Yep... it's reverse psychology - making you do something by telling you the opposite... or making something useless desirable by making it inaccessible or rare... we, humans, are quite something...
(I also found the story on wiki btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannis_Kapodistrias scroll down to "Administration")