Comments on: Monkey gets upset about receiving unequal pay (Video)

By: Michael Crumpton

Michael Crumpton — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:16:00 +0000

When you are talking about inequality and disproportionate compensation Wall Street is the epitome of both.

By: Michael Crumpton

Michael Crumpton — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:11:00 +0000

Fully 47% of monkeys are willingly in left hand cages out of sheer laziness and lack of good work ethics, when with just a little determination and hard work they could be in right hand cages and enjoying the fruits of their labors (so to speak).

By: jhertzli

jhertzli — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:41:00 +0000

Won’t that be the end of both the cucumbers and grapes? Or is fair starvation preferable?

By: Victor Reijs

Victor Reijs — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:35:00 +0000

This is very in line with the idea in the Book Animals in Transition (of Temple Gradin). Great to see this behavoir!!! So human.

By: Ipo

Ipo — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:31:00 +0000

But bankers get far less monkey than primatologists. So there’s that.

By: 666beast1

666beast1 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:20:00 +0000

Go little monkey! Rage against the machine!

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 05:01:00 +0000

Fun fact: Primatologists make less money than bankers.

By: mcaron00

mcaron00 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 03:40:00 +0000

Mitt Romney: “50% of monkeys are getting free food from lab technicians, yet they see themselves as victims. I think they only have themselves to blame.”

By: cfuse

cfuse — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 02:13:00 +0000

They were both euthanised and had their brains dissected. Then the researcher ate all the remaining grapes and cucumber.

By: Shibi_SF

Shibi_SF — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:28:00 +0000

I like grapes so I’d have to twist up your phrase and say… “Just take your cucumber and shaddup about it!”

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:23:00 +0000

Holy hell he looks exactly like Bill Murray. Mannerisms, even!

By: sky croeser

sky croeser — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:05:00 +0000

This totally seems like the kind of groundbreaking experiment that it’s worth keeping another sentient being in a cage for! Obviously we humans are making great strides in understanding ‘fairness’.

By: Diogenes

Diogenes — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:04:00 +0000

Or the grape monkey got the experimenter to give him half of the cukes on top of all the grapes, as a bailout

By: Diogenes

Diogenes — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:02:00 +0000

Gee, maybe it’s because the presenter said just that.

By: Diogenes

Diogenes — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0000

Just wait until cuke-monkey gets a chance to sink it’s teeth into the hand of unfairness. Debts will be paid!

By: Modano

Modano — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:29:00 +0000

Capuchin monkeys are people too, my friend!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:12:00 +0000

Bitch, your cucumber looks fine to me.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:56:00 +0000

The fact that the cucumber-getter is getting all upset just shows that he’s lazy and dependent on the government. If he had had the brilliant foresight to be placed in the right-hand cage, he would be getting justly rewarded with grapes, but you’ll never get the ungrateful sod to understand that.

By: disillusion

disillusion — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:56:00 +0000

I know right? If anything, this is the equivalent of the whole gender disparity with equal pay. For Wallstreet it would be as if the second monkey threw poo at the examiner and got a bushel of grapes.

By: CastanhasDoPara

CastanhasDoPara — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:56:00 +0000

Indeed, unfortunately they are just trained monkeys, fed at the whim of the human and therefore neither of them is really any better off or better than the other and certainly not better off than the human. Which I suspect a lot of the top echelons of society (human) think that they are superior creatures and that all their “serfs” are just little monkeys singing and dancing in a cage for table scraps.

Clearly it’s not the guy down the hall with a nicer cubicle or even the guy a few floors up with an actual office we should be focusing on as to why our lot in life stinks; it’s the guys on the outside of the box looking at all their dancing little monkeys toiling away for a handful of fruit while they kick back and eat steak. Or something like that anyway.

By: timquinn

timquinn — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:17:00 +0000

We are talking about unequal pay for the same work and all people can think of is Wallstreet.

Hello!

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:13:00 +0000

Someday the monkeys will realize the real solution is to cooperate in cracking open the head of the experimenter with the rock, putting an end to these manipulative games.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:56:00 +0000

Meanwhile, a third monkey who received 4,765 grapes thinks these two are fucking slackers who should be lucky to get half a cucumber slice when monkeys overseas are getting a third a cucumber slice for the same work.

By: Matthew Petty

Matthew Petty — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:36:00 +0000

I saw a thing once about chimps being made to share their bunches of grapes, but one chimp did this by eating all the grapes and then sharing just the stalks with the other chimp.
“What? He got half the bunch! The half made of stalks.”

By: mmmPi

mmmPi — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:33:00 +0000

In our house we often use the expression “where’s my grape,” to describe unfair situations (we heard about these tests several years ago).

By: UncaScrooge

UncaScrooge — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:29:00 +0000

If the monkey is protesting like an American, he’ll demand that the other monkey’s grapes be downgraded back to cucumber slices. It’s only fair.

If the monkey is protesting like a foreign anarchist, he’ll demand that he be paid in grapes like the other guy. Further study is warranted.

By: Samantha Roberts

Samantha Roberts — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:15:00 +0000

I was left with the overwhelming question…..did that monkey ever get a grape? When the test was over?

By: waetherman

waetherman — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:03:00 +0000

I think the point is that whichever monkey is getting paid less will think that the system is unfair, while I’m sure that further tests would show that the monkey getting paid more believes that he is smarter and/or working harder and therefore deserves to get paid more.

By: GlyphGryph

GlyphGryph — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:53:00 +0000

Oh no, wall streeters are more than capable of getting pissed as hell if things are unfair.

Just notice which of the two monkeys “recognize unfairness” and get upset about it.

By: CastanhasDoPara

CastanhasDoPara — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:40:00 +0000

Proof positive that creatures with the capacity to think universally get uppity when things are obviously unfair.

As a corollary I posit that the Wallstreeters are either sub-intelligent slugs or are amoral, unethical jerks, or both.