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Simian Spanking Science

The people who regard Prisoner’s Dilemma as an illustration of economics rather than an attempt to justify a pathological ideology will probably take this as showing how natural money and markets are:

Monkeys taught to use money

I on the other hand wonder just what kind of pervert tortures monkeys until they have to act like office workers in order to try to naturalize their weird worldview.

Some experiments prove a bit more than they are meant to. This is definitely one of them.