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[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 23 points 6 months ago

If it helps, that's not monkeys inventing capitalism, it's monkeys responding to a system of currency that was enforced on them by scientists. That's a very different thing.

Essentially what they've discovered is an example of the logic of capitalism reproducing itself within those it subjugates.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Don't bonobos offer sex for services or food in the wild? Still not necessarily capitalism to have a market, unless there was a bonobo pimp exploiting bonono hookers to profit off them without doing a damn thing himself.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 11 points 6 months ago

If they did it still wouldn't be capitalism. Capitalism isn't just when market, and I don't know why it's important that sex is the thing being offered except to make it sound worse because our society hates sex workers.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The sex thing isn't important it was just what bonobos use as currency, so the rest of my example just went with that.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 months ago

Fair, it just seems like the people using this example are leaning hard into the "prostitution" angle. I didn't mean to imply you were bringing it up because you personally hate sex workers or anything.

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