• Striker@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 months ago

    When I woke up today I never would if guessed that today is the day I would wind up accidentally learning that monkey prostitutes are a thing.

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      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.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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        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.

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          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.

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              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.