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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 97 points 8 months ago

Technically we pay for all the shit that makes living on earth less brutal than what the monke has to put up with on a daily basis

Money tends to be less painful than getting mauled by a predator trying to scavenge food

Also we have beer! No seriously archeological evidence suggests beer was the main selling point of settled civilization for a lot of groups, so much so that it was the money until someone in turkey figured out you could use weird metal disks for that instead.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 46 points 8 months ago

Fr, capitalism sucks absolute ass and there are better systems we can revolve around.

BUT if it's between capitalism and going back to having to forage, scavenge, fight nature itself on a daily basis and all the other crap all other animals have to deal with...mmm yea I'll stick with capitalism lmao

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago

well yeah, capitalism was a step up from feudalism and so on.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Let’s go back to the beer economy, where your money goes bad eventually if you don’t drink it. Elon Musk would have the largest reserve of rotten beer in human history. He deserves it.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 16 points 8 months ago

As satisfying as that would be parabley speaking, it'd also ruin our ability to organize commerce and infrastructure at a grander scale than a single region that happens to have a good breadbasket to get the beer crop from.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Money tends to be less painful than getting mauled by a predator trying to scavenge food

Easy to say when you're ensconced in the imperial core. But I wouldn't want to be living on the periphery. Humans are far crueler and more destructive than any natural predator.

A jaguar won't double-tap your house with a missile strike, to make sure it kills everyone inside and then any neighbors who rush in to help. An orca won't spend six years running caricatures of you in a tabloid newspaper, in order to build up enough bigotry and fear against your neighborhood that there's no push back when local politicians green light it for "slum clearance". No chimpanzee ever worked at Abu Ghraib or Vladimir Prison.

What humans do for money is far worse than what any predator has ever done for a meal.

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[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 59 points 8 months ago

Monkey pays to live. He pays in the form of the daily labor of foraging, avoiding predators and finding shelter. It's just not converted to the generalized form of money and then back to the basic needs of the monkey like we do it.

Labor is the basic unit of wealth. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 17 points 8 months ago

Even if you somehow had your own sovereign nation with everything needed to self-sustain your whole family, never needing to leave...

You're still paying.

With your time and effort.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

Only difference between us here is we pay with paper, they pay with blood

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 23 points 8 months ago

Not even paper anymore, it's almost entirely funny numbers in a computer

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah its become so innocuos and default i forgot

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 16 points 8 months ago

You pay with blood every day

[-] lugal@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

But not my blood and that's the real difference

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Not me. Just sweat and tears. I leave the bloodwork for those with the stomach

[-] ManniSturgis@lemmy.zip 11 points 8 months ago

But blood I actually have.

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Don't say that too loud

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[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 23 points 8 months ago

you can work for food or you can work for tokens then exchange tokens for food but to imagine that every other living thing is just having a lovely time vibing and munching on infinite, freely available grindage while humans are the only species that has to do shit that sucks is just ignorant Rousseau noble savage dumbness

[-] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

I think we tend to greatly underestimate how much the average wild animal's life completely sucks. Predators. Disease. Food shortages. Injuries that never fully heal. Teeth...you know what happens to teeth if you never brush them? A lot of animals are just scraping by. You know how most animals have pretty big litters, and quite often too? Yet their population stays roughly the same? Consider the implications of that fact on the survival rate for an average animal.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Wholeheartedly agree. The only thing I'd add is that I think it's in theoretical discussions that we underestimate how much a wild animal's life sucks shit. In the US at least there's enough forest that if a person wanted to get lost and be totally self-reliant they could take an honest shot at it. I think each of us has had that thought deep down in our secret hearts and, when we do, in that particular moment we make a very frank, honest and accurate estimate about how much fun it would be dying of an infection while lying face down in the cold muck. And this coming from a person who prides himself on being "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

The rabbit that my cat brought home today was definitely not vibing

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

Your cat ought to work a little less.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 8 months ago

I know this is a joke, but for real outdoor domesticated cats kill 1.3-4 billion songbirds a year… and most of those cats are being fed by humans.

They really do need to stop working so hard, and humans really need to start thinking about the ethics of letting their cat out to slaughter the wildlife around their home for no reason.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

I keep finding dead things in my yard because of this. There are at least 3 "neighborhood cats" that someone lets run wild. They're definitely fed, groomed and collared, they have somewhere to go at night. Do you know of any techniques to reduce the impact short of just letting them come into my house during the day?

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

If monkeys could exchange goods and services to have shelter, easy food, and entertainment, you bet they would.

[-] Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

They even understand when the boss is fucking with their pay.

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[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 13 points 8 months ago

TBH if Orangutans knew they could pay to conserve their own habitat and buy more food then they'd probably be working jobs, too.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Right up until they tried to unionize, at which point they'd be exterminated to the last orange hair.

[-] dwalin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Itt: America = The world

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[-] TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl 11 points 8 months ago

Was this made by a 12yo?

[-] UckyBon@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

At least they know what Joe Rogan looks like.

[-] TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl 2 points 8 months ago

Please, enlight me more with your celebrity trivia.

[-] Cornpop@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Everything pays, just not with money.

[-] Gonk@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 8 months ago

That feels like the wrong meme face for the human

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

More like paying to prevent someone from assaulting you and taking all your stuff. Literally all of society is built from this foundation. Monkeys will just fuck each other up.

[-] lugal@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Don't make it about our species. It's capitalism

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[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I’m 14 and this is deep bro

[-] HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

You literally dont have to pay for that. You can choose to not do that. It would be pretty dumb of you to do that but it's possible.

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

It's all about resource management and having skills to survive. Both monkeys and us - humans do it.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

Our economy is an abstraction of nature. Both require work for survival.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Our economy is an abstraction of nature.

Its several layers deep in abstractions, which leads to some serious contradictions and faulty logic chains. Climate Change is probably the most current and obvious example, but we've got a host of instances in which we misappropriate or squander natural resources in a way an orangutan could not or would not. From the volume of trash production to the concept of financializing capital construction, we generate enormous amounts of excess capacity and waste very rapidly and then simply displace it onto distant habitats in order to keep it out of sight and mind.

When we talk about a distinction between natural and human activities, a lot of what we're describing is the artificially rapid pacing and the subsequent over-consumption of our behaviors. No orangutan could deliberately accrue the kind of ecological debts that a human child incurs without even thinking.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

we generate enormous amounts of excess capacity and waste very rapidly and then simply displace it onto distant habitats in order to keep it out of sight and mind.

In fairness, the other apes also tend to walk a little bit away from their nesting sites before they poop. The reason there aren't great big mounds of orangutan poop visible from space is probably more due to the fact that there aren't 8 billion orangutans all pooping at the same time than anything else.

[-] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

And now I'm picturing 8 billion orangutans all pooping at the same time. Thank you.

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[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Go live the... Is that an orangutan? Life and get back to us.

[-] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 points 8 months ago

A. Who just randomly says orangutans are dumb B. I don't pay to live on earth C. Orangutans are awesome D. I hate capitalism

[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

Economists hate him!

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