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Monkeys Exhibit the Same Economic Irrationality As Us
grrlscientist writes "Laurie Santos is trying to find the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primates make decisions. This video documents a clever series of experiments in 'monkeynomics' and shows that some of the stupid decisions we make are made by our primate relatives too."
mistook the legislature for a barrel of monkeys
Been there, done that, paid for the T-shirt
and didn't get it
So you have four monkeys with bananas, and they give their bananas to the first guy, right? Then the four monkeys each look to recruit four more monkeys, and get their bananas...
So they buy Apples too, huh?
Yeah, I think I saw a monkey holding a phone in a weird fashion the other day.
And another monkey reading a book on objective C.
Save your wrists today - switch to Dvorak
You ever see a human with a Zune?
Now they need a stimulus plan to bail out their Banana Bubble, but the Gorillas are opposing it.
And why should the gorillas have to climb a tree to give a monkey a banana? The monkeys should stop being so lazy and get off of banana welfare! See, this is what happens in social banana republics - all of the good bananas get offshored! If these monkeys really wanted a banana that badly, they'd move to Zimbabwe to be where the bananas are! But noooooo, they just expect the zookeepers to keep bringing them bananas, when everyone knows that zookeepers only increase the amount of time it takes for monkeys to go find their own bananas! Don't hate a gorilla just because you don't have as many bananas as he does!
Libertarians somehow believe that private businesses should be stronger than governments but weaker than individuals.
Of course Krugman knows better than you how to spend your own money.
How dare you question the wisdom of Keynesians.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
WARNING: You have mistranslated the Latin phrase petitio principii. It has nothing to do with begging or questions.
Although come to think of it, I do wonder how many bananas Best Buy get's for a crappy Sandisk MP3 player w/ 3 year extended warranty....
Nah. That would require me to RTFA.
*** Sigs are a stupid waste of bandwidth.
I did once. She was an animal.
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