• pixxelkick@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Unfortunately this is false. They’ve tested this and monkeys establish captilasm extremely fast when they come to understand currency as a concept.

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/503550

    They would exchange the currency, steal it, gamble with it, purchase with it, and even do some prostitution for it.

    Edit: To people responding that this isnt capitalism, it actually is, in this case the privatized controller of wealth were the researchers distributing “payment” to the monkeys at a fixed rate, as well as having experiments where the monkeys had to pull levers before they would receive rewards either to themselves or later, altruistically to other monkeys.

    You would know that if you took the time to read up on the study before responding…