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In this house we share the bananas
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I vaguely remember reading about monkeys teaming up and beating others to death if they hoard too much 'wealth'. If that's actually true the meme is still kind of true.
There's no real way to hoard "wealth" as a monkey. Fruit rots. There's no way to invest in such a society, since they don't understand the concept of growing food. That's why they live in family groups to control territory.
Humans lived similarly for hundreds of thousands of years. Calling the basic exchange of tokens "capitalism" isn't accurate. It's like calling a tribal society "communism" because people take care of their relatives for free. It's not accurate.
I don't recall the mention of fruit. Rather, currency was used.
How are hunter gatherer societies not communism? They live in communes and they collectively share everything.