Schrödinger's PratIf a giant flaming meteor was coming to wipe out all life on earth and, through some magical convoluted and utterly insane mechanism, the only way to stop it was for everyone on earth to buy one fewer sock each year, we'd be instantly flooded with thousands of people proudly bragging on the Internet about how they're now going to buy hundreds of socks *right now* because the libs can't tell them what to do.
Mark Otway@Rhodium103
It wouldn't be long before there was a significant profit-making market where people could sell their bare feet so, that others could buy additional socks and "offset" them.
Of course, eventually everyone would realise that all the people selling their bare feet were actually wearing brand new socks after all, and the whole initiative was a massive scam.