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You don't know primate ethology.
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... says the dentist to the businessman. We both went to school. We both watch animal planet.
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Food is given yes, but as currency, it buys sex and it buys allies to work in the power structures at hand.
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Monkeys don't have a capitalist economy. Their sexual drive is partially based on the ability to provide, just like humans, but it's not like 4 bananas gets a Dirty Sanchez. That's prostitution, anyway.
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There is no individual ownership (outside of females of course) because what exactly is an ape going to own? The dominant ones control the best food supply so you can say they 'own' that, and they control the matings, so you can say they own that to.
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Apes use tools, right? There's your possession.
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Lessor males support dominant ones in chimps so they may overcome other groups of males and that 'group' reaps the rewards.
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Socialism.
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Rival troops are chased out of territory or killed.
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So one more successful socialist troop beats another.
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Working together for the common good as it applies to your own direct wellbeing isn't socialism its capitalism. You scratch my back and pick the lice, and I'll do the same for you. There is no hypothetical 'greater good', no needs of the many, just the needs of each individual being met based on what they bring to the table.
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OMG, you're a socialist! You think that working together for a common good and thus an individual's well being is capitalism, and you're a self described capitalist. Awesome.